Trade.

BCA Trade & Business
Focus Group Remit.

01. Support Birmingham City Council’s Trade and Investment Strategy.

02. Support the GBCCC priorities. 

03.a  Support the Commonwealth Games trade and business objectives.

03.b  Support the Commonwealth Games tourism, culture, and investment related initiatives. 

04. Provide an outreach, engagement and brokerage facility bringing together organisations with like-minded objectives.

05. Seek greater alignment with the Midlands Engine Commonwealth trade objectives.

06. Support HMG in its wider Brexit trade ambitions, DIT and FCDO.

What our team can bring to the party:

  • Our passion about the Commonwealth and Commonwealth trade, and our desire to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Having been formed in March 2014 by Birmingham City Council, we have 7 years of Commonwealth Engagement. 
  • Our engagement with the Royal Commonwealth Society which we are affiliated with.
  • Our experience in receiving delegations from overseas and High Commissions. 
  • Our ability to carry out country-specific research. 
  • A board having significant experience and knowledge of business and the strengths and weakness of Commonwealth nations when it comes to trade.
  • Our engagement with Birmingham City University and Aston University.
  • Our ability to contribute to a 'civic' role and provide the host with any required cultural or religious knowledge when hosting overseas delegations and provide follow up support.
  • 'Harnessing the power of partnership'. Our wish to engage, partner, collaborate and encourage others, supporting each other for the broader common good.
  • Our network and past/current engagement with Commonwealth High Commissions and the local Commonwealth Diplomatic Corp.
  • Our experience of organising conferences and speaking at trade conferences. 
  • We can be a hub for the communication of activities and initiatives so all are better informed. 
image of KSS with Botswana HC

BCA Chairman Keith Stokes-Smith with the High Commissioner of Botswana, the Reverend Dr John Seakgosing, and his colleague from the High Commission, Mr Moemedi Mokgisi, Executive Director, International Business UK/EU in 2019.

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