Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are more than just values – they give businesses a competitive advantage. From more lived experiences to creative thinking, a sense of belonging to more engaged employees, EDI should form the foundation of your company’s thinking.

Our ethos

At BAME in Property we’re on a mission to help you make your organisation more diverse and inclusive.

Our aim is to support talented people of all backgrounds, encourage upcoming generations to venture into fulfilling careers, and inspire businesses to create a wave of positive change.

Our approach is twofold, exploring the importance of ethnic diversity in recruitment and ensuring planning delivery is equally as varied. We place importance on diversity of inputs and personnel to result in varied and innovative outputs.

Through tailored services, creative analogies and strategic advice, we’re helping companies make diversity and inclusion a key part of their overall company strategy – not just an afterthought.

Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.
— Verna Myers, CEO of Declic International and inclusive leadership specialist

the journey

Having initially launched as a networking organisation in early 2018, BAME in Property from mid-2020 evolved into a limited company to offer a range of services including more events, corporate membership packages, a jobs board, consultancy, lunch & learns and workshops, community engagement strategies, as well as support on industry campaigns in the media and beyond.

Some of our early networking events, pre-COVID-19, were sponsored by companies including Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield, Landsec, Savills and K&L Gates – to name a few. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from holding physical events but gave us the opportunity to grow our presence online exponentially.

Since evolving into a company, our presence and work across the industry has further grown, with multiple corporate members utilising a range of our services. We’ve held lunch & learns with dozens of companies, such as Homes England, Grainger plc, British Property Federation, EG, Pocket Living and Thirteen Housing Group - to name a few - and partnered with London Property Alliance to help produce their industry-wide Race guide. Our jobs board continues to host several roles at a time, serving a range of public, private and not-for-profit organisations across the built environment sector, and we’ve increased our networking events across the UK.


who we represent

We work with and represent the broad range of sectors within the built environment – developers, construction companies, architects, planners, housing delivering bodies, surveyors and many more.

The Census 2021 data showed that 18% of the UK’s population classifies as BAME but in the built environment sector this figure is significantly lower. After all, if the role of planning is to create diverse and inclusive communities, the sector should be reflective of this.

Through our networking events and research, we have found that BAME individuals not only face greater barriers when entering an industry, through lack of connections, experience or visibility, but once within a company, there are often challenges with progression and retention.

With the built environment being a hugely contributing factor to economic growth and societal progression, we want to ensure BAME individuals have the same opportunities to not only enter this fantastic sector but to thrive within it too.