The Uber Eats Black Business Fund will award cash grants to twenty-five small Black-owned businesses with at least half going to small businesses outside of London
£250,000 of grant funding will be awarded to Black-owned restaurants across the UK as the Uber Eats Black Business Fund is launched for the third year. To date, businesses have received a total of £300,000 of grants since the award scheme started in 2021, with this year’s funding taking the total amount awarded past half a million pounds.
Rachel Olatoke, who runs Harvest Afro Caribbean in Windsor is a previous winner of a Black Business Fund grant. She said: “I started my restaurant almost as a form of activism – there isn’t much diversity in Windsor so during lockdown we decided to change that and bring African and Caribbean cuisine to the high street. We’re a fusion restaurant so we have two signature dishes, Jerk Chicken on the Caribbean side and Egusi on the African side.
Emma Jones, CBE, founder and CEO of small business support platform and membership community Enterprise Nation, said: “This fund plays a massively important role in highlighting the amazing work black food entrepreneurs are doing as well as enabling them to see themselves and their incredible food reflected on our high streets and street food events.
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