Natalie Scarlett is a multi-award winning Social Entrepreneur and Race Practitioner that specialises in Agile Delivery Change Management. She is the Founder and Director of the Black Heritage Support Service, an advocacy service established to provide the Black community with an avenue when trying to gain access to public and civil services.

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Natalie also founded Tech Rootz. A non-coding tech developmental initiative designed to open up the tech world to the Black, Neurodivergent and Deaf community.

 

Natalie's strength is in finding innovative solutions to social deprivation. Natalie formerly with Public Health, Birmingham City Council, Citizens Advice Bureau, the British Red Cross and  was hired by the Bank of England in 2022 to deliver Bank wide products and services.

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She is a UN Womens Delegate and was chosen as one of Black Cultural Archives 40x40 future leaders.  Black Britain and Beyond which is based at UCL, completed extensive research to identify 40 Black British individuals, who are poised as the next generation of leaders of African and Caribbean descent that exemplify the mission and values of the BCA.

She is the winner of the Tech For Good category awarded by Women in Tech & winner of Birmingham Techs Diversity Champion of The Year Award.
Natalie has a Masters with Distinction in Political and Corporate Communication, specialising in race & class.

Her work with the British Red Cross included successfully creating and implementing their anti-racism strategy. 

Due to the impact that Natalies work made at The British Red Cross, she was also chosen as a Fellow at the International Federation Red Crescent's Solferino Academy. 

 

History

Natalie started out as a Youth Mentor in 2007, working for a Coventry-based youth and media company, Frontline AV. She received a formal award from Lord Mayor Ahmed and Coventry City Council in 2007 for leading a successful youth mentoring program in Warwickshire. 
She is also a fully qualified videographer, specialising in promotional trailers, events and short-style documentaries. In 2008 she was funded by Screen West Midlands to direct her first short film, which premiered at Warwick Arts Centre.
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After graduating and leaving the arts in 2014, Natalie began working in the humanitarian sector.
She was featured in the Birmingham Mail for raising awareness around political voting in the 2016 election. 
In 2017 she completed a social action project in partnership with three faiths and Member of Parliament Layla Moran. Natalie was invited to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon to read article 6 of the European Convention on human rights.

With the Black community being more than 4x more likely to die from Covid-19, she founded The Black Heritage Support Service in 2020. BHSS is an advocacy service which supports the black community through crisis. 

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Natalie has been featured in The Voice Newspaper, The Voice online, The Birmingham Mail, BBC WM, New style Radio and Solihull Radio.
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