For the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit to narrow the gap between the poorest neighbourhoods and the rest, we must work with our partners and friends - with existing organisations, but also with people who are currently excluded from decisions about their lives. I want us to reach particularly those people in deprived neighbourhoods from our ethnic minorities. In many of those communities is the potential energy to transform our communities.’

BNRRN understands the experience of BME communities in terms of severe deprivation, social injustice and exclusion. We know the level of potential resource within communities. We provide the link and enabling tools for BME organisations to achieve access to and participate in regeneration and renewal initiatives, provide a platform where BME organisations can begin building links with other communities within their locality, provide information and support to our members on how to get involved in local initiatives as well as supporting our members and their communities on integrating with local generic communities.

BNRRN seeks to promote wealth creation in under invested communities and offers solutions that encourage enterprise and create new business capacity to invest in inner cities. We continuously look at new ways of growing stable communities and recognise that the involvement of the financial and business communities is fundamental in long-term community revitalisation. BNRRN promotes the development of BME led enterprise, credit unions, urban regeneration companies and other social firms.