UK’s Architecture profession is 83% white and 78% male dominated. Black women form less than 1% of the architecture profession.

Co-founders Akua, Neba and Selasie have a mission to change the face of the architecture and built environment industries, to ensure that placemakers and designers reflect the communities that they serve. Through facilitating and creating opportunities for black women to have an active response to the design of our cities, BFA challenges the status quo on who an architect is and what they look like.

A social enterprise and global membership organisation, BFA started out as a WhatsApp group and has now grown to almost 500 members with new members joining every week.

BFA supports its growing membership through the provision of a support network within which members benefit from shared knowledge, advice, guidance, access to the personal networks of fellow members, job opportunities and much more. BFA also actively promotes racial equity, social justice and systemic change in the industry by initiating partnerships and hosting public events raising awareness of issues, and hosting networking events connecting BFA members with industry professionals.

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