Introducing Street2Boardroom, a social enterprise founded by Clayton Planter, based in the Coach House. Street2Boardroom supports people who have engaged in street crime to excel in business and get them on the right track.
We would love to congratulate Clayton for winning the BristolLive Business Awards 2021’s ‘IAMBOB Special Award.’ The IAMBOB Campaign helps support the growth of the UK's Black economy and businesses and winning this award exhibits a real talent for entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Why did you want to be set up at the Coach House?
I moved into The Coach House as I thought it was local to where I had been brought up and I wanted to help the people in the community. The reason the Coach House is so good is that it's local to the people I'm working for but also it’s two minutes to go central town or Broadmead as well. For me it’s a great place it's very diverse, you got young and old, Black and white, so many races and so many faces it’s a brilliant place to be.
What is your business and who do you support?
So Street2Boardroom is a social enterprise which I started in 2016, I wanted to do something different and something innovated. What we do with Street2Boardroom is work with people from disadvantaged communities and put them on the right track. We take the hustling skills that they learnt off the streets and we try and take that to the boardroom. We have the Street2Boardroom learn a Legal Hustle course which is a 4-week motivation course, then we have the Carbon Hustle course. We are also developing a Street2Boardroom foundation degree course and I'm currently writing my book Street2Boardroom against the odds and developing a board game as well.
How do you feel being part of The Coach House community?
I think it’s vibrant. What I like about the Coach House is it’s good to see so much diversity in one place. We talk about so much inclusion and diversity in Bristol, however, when you actually go to some of the busiest places, we realise it’s mostly white. What I like about the Coach House is you’ve got white, you've got Black, you've got Somalis, you've got Asians, you've got so much diversity and ages in one place, celebrating the same thing and trying to get somewhere to start their own businesses.