Supplier inclusionUK Inclusive Sourcing Summit 2025
“Every purchase is a choice.”
The question is: do we want our supply chains to be mirrors of the past – or to build a more inclusive future?
Preyal Dewani
Founder – Wildfire
Founder – Wildfire
Inclusion shouldn't be a side project; it creates genuine commercial value
For many small and medium businesses, the biggest barrier isn’t capability, it’s equal access to opportunity.
Procurement processes are often designed with large suppliers in mind: particularly long tenders. They screen out innovation before it even gets a chance.
Our credentials
OutBritain certified.
Supplier inclusion is part of our own story, too. Wildfire is an OutBritain-certified business and serves on the OutBritain Advisory Board.
“Inclusive sourcing isn’t just about contracts - it’s about creating a world where opportunity is distributed, not concentrated.”
The Wildfire Viewpoint
Commercial value.
Community impact.
Questions we typically discuss with corporates looking to accelerate their impact with SMEs
How can you identify, connect with and qualify SME partners?
How can you make it easier to do business with each other?
How can you make progress and community impact more visible?
Practical steps like smaller contract sizes, flexible payment terms, match-making buyers with suppliers can improve inclusive sourcing within your business.
Inclusion in action
From strategic intent
to meaningful action.
With Meta, we helped turn ambition into an actionable supplier strategy. With HSBC, we helped bring a supplier development programme to life.
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A shared direction for
supplier strategy.
As its business context and priorities changed, Meta’s supplier team needed to come together, align and create a new strategy.
Wildfire engaged stakeholders, reviewed the evidence and designed and facilitated a strategy workshop in Paris. We helped the team move from big ambition to actionable plans, capturing the outputs in a strategy pack for immediate use.
The difference
Space for honest conversations. Clearer shared direction. Practical tools and an actionable strategy.
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Building confidence.
Opening connections.
For HSBC’s Supplier Growth Connect pilot, Wildfire helped design and deliver a programme supporting LGBTQ+ businesses to engage with large corporates.
From January to March 2026, the experience combined expert-led learning, peer connection and an in-person finale with practice pitches and procurement feedback.
100%Reported greater confidence engaging with corporates*
100%Would recommend the programme to other LGBTQ+ founders*
*Reported end-of-programme feedback in the July 2026 impact report. Survey response count is not stated.
The difference
Practical supplier development, closer relationships with procurement and a peer community that continued beyond the programme.
Part of the community
Working together.
Opening more doors.
Wildfire serves on the OutBritain Advisory Board. Our relationship reflects a shared commitment to creating more opportunities for LGBTQ+ businesses and strengthening connections across the supplier community.
For us, supplier inclusion is personal. It is about the people behind businesses, the relationships we build and the possibilities we create together.
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Adding our voice
Keep the conversation
moving forward.
Preyal brings the supplier perspective to conversations about inclusive sourcing: what opens doors, what gets in the way and what procurement leaders can do differently.
UK Inclusive
Sourcing Summit
Drawing on her experience as a business founder and change practitioner, Preyal explored how inclusive sourcing can move from policy into practice, through fair access, buyer education and stronger supplier relationships.
In the room.
Part of the conversation.
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“Procurement has the power to influence who gets a seat at the economic table. The boldest leaders will use that power to open doors, not close them.”
Let’s talk
What could more inclusive
buying make possible?
For procurement teams
Explore a supplier strategy session, a supplier development programme or working with Wildfire.
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Share your perspective, introduce your business or explore how we could contribute together.
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