The British Fashion Council has unveiled its new strategy, BFC 2030: Access, Creativity, Growth. Under Chief Executive Laura Weir, the strategy establishes the organisation as the fashion industry's incubator, shifting from promotion to support for designers, businesses and the wider ecosystem.

The strategy brings together funding, education, skills, space, partnerships and global access into a connected system designed to nurture creative excellence, strengthen commercial resilience and drive long-term growth.

London Fashion Week and The Fashion Awards will evolve as high-impact growth platforms, driving commercial value, expanding consumer access and strengthening the UK's global soft power:

• LFW becomes a laboratory for innovation and creative exchange.
• The Fashion Awards evolves into a global fundraiser that amplifies British fashion's influence and international authority.

The BFC will modernise membership, redesign Prizes and Programmes and accelerate scholarships aligned to British craft, innovation and manufacturing. Four strategic growth initiatives will anchor long-term scale:

• BFC Fashion Assembly: reconnecting leading designers with the schools and communities that shaped them, championing arts education and demystifying pathways into fashion.
• BFC Fashion House: providing studio space, shared infrastructure and cultural resources across the UK.
• BFC Mini MBA: building the next generation of fashion leaders with business, technology and sustainability expertise.
• BFC International: unlocking global fundraising, trade partnerships and export growth for UK designers.

The strategy will be delivered through a structured three-year growth plan and a fourth year focused on measurement and scale. For more information, visit britishfashioncouncil.co.uk.