By Dee Khan
The History, The Vision, The Mission

What does By Dee Khan do?

By Dee Khan offers Virtual Business Development Advice and Support Services to help sole traders, SMEs, social enterprises and non-profit organisations convert their vision into action.

The long-standing mission and aim of its founder and owner, Dee Khan has always been to support people striving to make a positive, social impact. 

We care about our social impact and the social value we add to the lives of others. 
We care about making a difference within society and communities. 

There are plenty of other individuals and organisations with similar visions and aims that realise this can be as challenging as it's rewarding. 

By Dee Khan services provide business advice and support for checkpoints and milestones along your pathway. 

By Dee Khan - The History and Vision

By Dee Khan is the fruition of an idea nurtured and developed in the determined mind of its founder and owner, Dee Khan. 
For over 30 years, Dee has passionately championed moral and social conscience and justice within workplaces and communities. 
Her motivation has always been and will always be to promote, encourage and increase diversity, equality, equity and inclusion.
Through her volunteering and career history, Dee has witnessed the challenges facing community groups, non-profit organisations, schools, sole traders, local businesses and local authorities trying to make a difference. 
By Dee Khan is a logical, yet organic, progression along Dee's career and community pathway.
By Dee Khan's ethos reflects Dee's personal values, character and attributes and its services draw on her skills, knowledge and experience.
By Dee Khan will help individuals and organisations realise their own visions to add social value and impact through their businesses. 

By Dee Khan - The Mission

To elicit respect and collaboration, engendering and nurturing social cohesion.
To enable individuals and organisations to progress their business and personal goals of building thriving, strong communities together. 
To support individuals and organisations in navigating often complex, bureaucratic systems when trying to make a difference. 
To support the aspirations of those aiming to add positive social value and social impact by levelling unfair playing fields and offering a helping hand. 

Individually, we can all do something to acknowledge and learn from the past, improve the present and develop a more caring, inclusive future. 

Just imagine what we can achieve together. Let’s do this! 

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A taster of Dee Khan's experience, skills and knowledge

15 years Community Volunteering

  • 2007-2017: Youth Football Coach (Youth Football Welfare Officer in 2017)
  • 2015/16: Samaritans Listening and Outreach Volunteer, including Network Rail Emotional Support partnership initiative
  • 2016-2019: Bedfordshire FA Inclusion Advisory Group (from 2017 IAG Vice Chair and Beds FA Council member)
  • 2017-2022: Bedfordshire Police Inclusion Advisory Group community member including anti-racism group member and interim period as Knife Crime Lead

5 years Civil Service Frontline Operations

Advocated for local jobseekers by working with local businesses to trial different recruitment practices and increase opportunities for 18-24 year olds, black and ethnic minorities, people in volatile domestic environments and ex-offenders.
Led several projects including:
  • 2013 - Co-planned, led & delivered a local inaugural employment and training fair with the local council, businesses and community leaders. Within 3 months, 30% of the local jobcentre's jobseeker attendees found work or went into further education. 
  • 2013 - Initiated discussions between local businesses and Menzies local hotel management to place 50% of Menzies staff in other work within a month of the hotel chain going into administration.
  • 2013/14 - moderated unit modules for the cross-Civil Service City & Guilds Customer Service qualification
  • 2013/14 - Planned, led and delivered a Winter Health & Wellbeing event for the Department's District-wide workforce
  • 2013/14 - Coached and mentored Operational peers re: career development and progression

7 years Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate, Strategy and Policy Development

Shone the spotlight on several issues in various ways, including:
  • 2015-2020: Coached and mentored Operational and Corporate colleagues re: career development/progression with a focus on gender and racial injustice and inequality within society and the workplace
  • 2015-2017: Women's Network Committee Member; identified and developed opportunities to raise awareness, encouraged and facilitated collaboration with other diversity network groups.
  • 2015-2017: Reverse mentored Corporate and Policy senior leaders re: issues and challenges for black and ethnic minority employees
  • 2016: Initiated, led, co-planned & delivered the Department's National Inclusion Week activities; trialling and co-ordinating audio/video conferencing and internal instant messaging across nationwide sites to enable dispersed workforce participation
  • 2016/17: led and encouraged discussions between senior leaders, LGBT+ colleagues and allies to co-develop action plans for improving employees’ sense of workplace belonging. This led to a significant increase in the Department's position on Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index, reversing a 4-year decline
  • 2019/20: Educated, enabled and encouraged approx. 10 Civil Service Departments to identify, explore and develop action plans for refreshing the Family Test guidance. The aim - to improve Family Test implementation to consider impacts on families during policy development. The refreshed guidance was published in May 2021
  • 2020/21: Worked on joint projects with national and local charities and community organisations to support Children of Alcohol Dependent Parents and raise awareness of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome

  Business in the Community secondment 2017/18

 Community Partnerships initiated and facilitated by Dee:
• A High Street bank and local Women's charity supporting the charity's service users to be financially independent
• Bedfordshire District Jobcentre Management joining Bedfordshire Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner's Criminal Justice and Reducing Reoffending Boards to support people through the welfare and criminal justice systems 

More community partnerships initiated and facilitated by Dee

• Bedfordshire Police partnering with the Prince's Trust to deliver elements of Prince’s Trust “Get Into…” Programmes to participants
• Bedfordshire Police partnering with Bedfordshire Football Association to deliver early intervention/safeguarding against child exploitation and serious youth violence  training to football coaches and welfare officers 

By Dee Khan could help your business

 Always learning

2014/2015 & 2016/2017: 2 x 12 month Civil Service Positive Action Pathway Development Programmes
2018 - Thames Valley Restorative Justice Practitioner Training
2018 - Young People's Mental Health First Aider Training
2018 - Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Training
2019-Present: Open University BA (Honours) Social Sciences Undergraduate

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