The aim of the project – delivered by GMCVO, GM BME network and Flourish CIC and supported by the Connect Fund – was to better understand the barriers facing Greater Manchester (GM) Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities to access social investment and what support would be needed to make social enterprise infrastructure more inclusive to BME social enterprise.

This briefing gives an overview of the main challenges identified through the research, and recommendations on how to address them.