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Black Pound Day (officially Black Pound Day, and sometimes referred to as BPD) is held on the first Saturday of every month with the first date being June 27th 2020.

History
Black Pound Day launched on Saturday 27 June 2020 in the United Kingdom. Created by So Solid Crew member 'Swiss' after experiencing the Black Lives Matter movement protests in London.

Proposals
On the first Saturday of each month, to observe Black Pound Day is to divert from spending money in your usual places of retail and invest in Black-owned businesses — both locally and online — to help make the retail economy fairer and more diverse.

Quoted in the Metro (British newspaper), 'Swiss' said regarding Black Pound Day:

‘Black Pound Day is a real solution-based community-empowering campaign and motivating endeavour that will leave a better infrastructure for the next generation to walk into. The day will provide the community with self-pride and a routined spending structure to move forward and close the product to consumer loop.'

‘The community will gain greater knowledge to be able to access and invest in black business. The vision of Black Pound Day is to empower the community to create a new economy which will in turn underpin our long-term financial growth and infrastructure.’

27th June 2020
Black Pound Day launched on Saturday 27 June 2020. Advising participants upload their receipts from purchases with "Black" owned businesses to the Black Pound Day website and the total of these receipts reached £61,940. Media outlets, BBC Newsbeat , Time Out (magazine), Esquire (magazine) , Metro (British newspaper) , Stylist (magazine), , Men's Health (magazine) wrote articles in support.

Support from the British Government
On June 24, 2020 Haringey London Borough Council became the first local authority to support the Black Pound Day initiative.

Dates
 2020–2025