British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC)
Kyiv - London
The British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (“BUCC”) brings together British, Ukrainian and international companies and individuals doing business in Ukraine and/or the UK, including in the City of London the financial capital of Europe, and Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and towns. We provide in-depth information on business, trade and culture in Ukraine and the UK to assist our members for business, trade and investment opportunities in Ukraine and the UK, hold regular meeting, conferences and webinars with interesting speakers and conduct numerous special projects to improve Ukraine and a wide variety of other activities, including through our committees, as described below. The BUCC also actively conducts charitable activities, especially to help Ukraine during the war.
Ukrainian Week in London – in preparationWe have developed proposals to resolve many of Ukraine’s most important problems for businesses, such as Judicial Ombudsman proposal (described below) to address Ukrainian court corruption and the MIGA based proposal to increase the availability of political/conflict risk insurance for investors and businesses in Ukraine (for more information Click here).
(1) Creating Ukrainian Judicial Ombudsman – which we see as the only viable solution to end illegal corporate raiding against British and other investors, (2) endeavouring to obtain a World Bank MIGA fund for conflict insurance for Ukraine as exists for most other countries experiencing conflict, and (3) fundraising to extend Ukrainian Action’s successful PTSD program in Ivano Frankifsk nationwide (with the UCCI). [Click for the Letter]
In addition to our monthly events, The BUCC has also organised many of the most important events ever held on Ukraine, such as Ukrainian Week in London attracting over 1000 senior delegates to the Savoy Hotel, RUSI and the EBRD, the 22 June 2023 Reception for Ukraine for 250 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London, and the five day Black Sea Economic Forum held in 2015 for over 750 at the Bristol Hotel in Odesa, among our many hundreds of events in Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv and London (for more information Click here).
Dear Members and Friends,
The British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC) hereby issues this Declaration on 18 August 2025 calling for the economically important cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, and the areas around them, to be protected from being surrendered to Russia in any peace settlement. click here
As described elsewhere, the BUCC’s policy initiatives are already addressing the principal problems of investors into Ukraine, for example, (i) to obtain insurance for war risk affecting their investments, and (2) to protect investors from court corruption and judicially facilitated corporate raiding by the creation of a Ukrainian Judicial Ombudsman ( Click here to learn more).
The Reconstruction of Ukraine is estimated to be the world’s largest reconstruction project since the end of the Second World War.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States has estimated that the total cost of reconstruction and recovery over the next decade will exceed USD 486 billion, including USD155 billion to physically rebuild infrastructure facilities.
We support businesses that are interested in investing and working in Ukraine. This includes support on key targets that the British and Ukrainian Governments seek to be addressed before contracts are awarded.
BCC is made up of Accredited Chambers of Commerce in every major UK city and town, as well as British bilateral chambers of commerce outside of the UK. The BUCC acts for Ukraine as part of the BCC’s powerful and reliable B2B network.
BUCC was one of the founding members of ICBAC, that is composed of most bilateral and other chambers of commerce and business associations for Ukraine, aiming to support bilateral business relations and economic growth.
(1) Campaigns for its to make major improvements in Ukraine, including to address judicial corruption with a Judicial Ombudsman and to increase political / conflict risk insurance for the war risks that discourage investment into Ukraine, as described below;
(2) Holds BUCC monthly Receptions in Kyiv, usually on the first Thursday every month, and seminars/conferences/webinars on important topics in Kyiv and London, based usually on in-person events with parts of the sessions also broadcast on live webinars;
(3) Conducts activities through the BUCC’s Committees, made up of companies and experts concerned with particular business areas, including with the BUCC Advisory Council to advise the Ukrainian and UK governments on needed reforms and to assist BUCC members;
(4) Conducts social media campaigns, including for its charitable activities and to respond to adverse press in the West connected to anti-Ukrainian propaganda;
(5) Fundraises for the delivery of medical equipment, vehicles, etc., into Ukraine, including by supporting activities of the five charities that the BUCC endorses;
(6) Facilitates business by helping to solve problems for our Members in Ukraine, including to address the special problems of small and medium communities in Ukraine and small and their medium-sized businesses (SME) to facilitate business in Ukraine click here.
To open the full description of the current BUCC activities programme, please click here.
The BUCC conducts numerous Special Project, including through its Committees, for the following:
Small and Medium Communities (SMC) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Joint Committee of the BUCC
The SMC/SME Joint Committee (JC) is made up of:
(1) Small and medium size communities (SMC), from the regions of Ukraine, that have similar development needs and problems and that are having difficulty communicating with domestic and foreign organisations and governments to obtain the many kinds of assistance they need to facilitate development, in particular to assist their small and medium sized enterprises; and
(2) Small and medium size enterprises (SME) that also have problems obtaining the many kinds of assistance they need to facilitate their development, including because the local infrastructure and resources in their communities needs improvement. This JC is led by a Council made up of (1) BUCC representatives specialised in small and medium enterprise and communities,
(2) representatives from the SMC and SME participants and (3) certain experts as well as representatives from government. This JC also has subcommittees for SMCs and for SMEs focusing on their respective issues.
Each of the subcommittees has prepared and continues to develop lists of communities and current activities that need support. (1) For the current activities and needs list for SMC, please Click here and (2) for the current activities and needs list for SMEs, please Click here
(1) Road Development. (2) Passenger train Improvements and (3) Freight Railroads Improvement to create a much better container freight rail corridor between Odessa and other Ukrainian ports to the Polish border click here
(1) National Defence, and (2) Security for Companies and Individuals. click here
(1) Nuclear Energy, (2) Oil & Gas, and (3) Renewable Solar and Wind. click here
Ukraine needs greater availability of political/conflict risk insurance, so that political/conflict risks do not continue to deter foreign investment into Ukraine. click here
For Ukraine’s judicial reform and anti-corruption programs to actually help protect UK and other foreign investors into Ukraine, Ukraine needs a Judicial Ombudsman (a special state prosecutor), as was successfully developed in Sweden in a similar situation a century ago click here
as described above to support small and medium communities and businesses click here
(1) Art and Culture / Ukrainian Impressionism Recovery Project
The BUCC is organizing projects (i) to show Ukrainian art in exhibitions in London, (ii) to digitally preserve ancient Ukrainian books and
other cultural objects [read more], held in Ukraine and abroad, so that they are available for Ukrainians and others to review worldwide, and (iii) to
redevelop recognition for the Ukrainian Impressionist artist Mykhailo Tkachenko.
For our Tkachenko project we have held exhibitions and receptionsin Lviv, including at the Lviv National Museum ofArt, and at a dinner at the Leopolis
Hotel Dining Room), and in Kyiv, at the Hyatt Hotel Ballroom, followed by dinner in the Hyatt’s London Room. Tkachenko in the period 1890-1910 was
considered to be a leading impressionist in Paris, when he had major exhibitions at the Grand Palais in Paris, and his paintings received top medals at
major French exhibitions. However, after Ukraine was overrun by the Bolsheviks in 1921, he was forgotten by western art historians. Professor James
Rubin, one of the world’s leading experts on Impressionism and the author of the principal study of Manet and over 60 other books and important
articles (his biography is in Wikipedia), spoke at these events as well as at three leading Ukrainian universities on Tkachenko. The exhibition at the
Hyatt’s Ballroom specially featured 30 paintings by Tkachenko that are privately held and are not otherwise generally available for public viewing.
The BUCC wishes in the future to organize for an exhibition of the paintings of the Ukrainian impressionist Michael Tkachenko to be shown in Kyiv
and London, and then in New York and Paris, Chicago and Toronto (which exhibition was funded but then suspended due to the war). Please read more
about this BUCC project dedicated to restoration of Ukrainian impressionism [here].
Digitalization Project
We have a project to digitize ancient Ukrainian books held at foreign libraries, including at the British Library and in Harvard’s Ukrainian Collection,
to make this part of Ukrainian culture generally accessible digitally to be appreciated by Ukrainians and others worldwide.
(3) Sports
We actively promote sports, including cricket and golf (previously with a programme with the Kyiv Golf Club, a leading Ukrainian golf course, that
we hope to resume after the war). We aim to include rugby in the future
presently a committee assembled ad hoc to facilitate major events, for example, Ukrainian Week in London
The BUCC focuses on British and Ukrainian trade and investment and, in particular, on projects to address important needs for business and investment, through the following Committees.
The BUCC aims to host another Ukrainian Week in London (UWL) to encourage investment to and trade with Ukraine as soon as possible after there appears to
be a durable ceasefire in the war – or sooner if the ceasefire is further delayed. The first UWL in 2018 was the largest event ever held in the UK or
elsewhere abroad on Ukraine and timely helped to encourage better UK-Ukraine trade treaty terms by explaining the special benefits of free agricultural
trade with Ukraine for the UK, that imports over half of its food (this is the principal benefit for the UK of Brexit)
For the next UWL, as before, the BUCC will work the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), for which the BUCC is their Ukrainian member.
The BUCC is currently organising the next UWL.
(1) Judicial Reform:
Could a judicial ombudsman help solve Ukraine’s rule of law problems?
(2) Increased Political / Conflict Risk Insurance Availability, Etc.:
Expats To Watch: Familiar Face in Legal Community Promotes His Plan to Save Ukraine – Kyivpost
(3) Proposals for the Economy:
(i) The West must take urgent steps to prevent Ukrainian economic collapse click here
(ii) Ukraine can feed Brexit Britain
(iii) How Ukraine’s Economy Can Be Brought Back to Life – KyivPost
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(1) OFFERED:
(2) SOUGHT:
Please send us items to further develop our list
[Listings can also be featured in the BU-Mart (see below)]
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(1) Law Reform
(i) Judicial Ombudsman: The BUCC proposes the creation of a Judicial Ombudsman as a Swedish style special prosecutor to police the courts and force re-hearings of decisions that are denials of justice, in order to fight the corrupt judicial facilitation of
illegal corporate raiding and thereby protect investors (for more information, please) click here
(ii)Reforming Legislation and Regulations: Our law reform/foreign investment protection project to improve Ukrainian legislation is presently focused on (a) curing problems due to certain Ukrainian Supreme Court rulings that a land lease registration can be voided for relatively minor problems (the relevant case law is inconsistent); (b) correcting the Limited Liability Law, for example to more appropriately protect minority investors from being coercively removed; and (c) curing the problem due to special (and unnecessary) drafting requirements that makes many agricultural land leases technically invalid (for more information, please click here and )
(iii) Anti-Corruption Law Compliance: Following up on our previous conferences on the British Bribery Act, the Law of Ukraine “On the Prevention of Corruption”, the US FCPA and other anti-corruption laws and their application in Ukraine, we continue to hold meetings and distribute information on compliance with anti-corruption laws. In 2025, we will be holding a webinar focused on changes in anti-corruption law compliance practices. (for more information, please
click here)
(2) Charitable Activities (described below – click here)
This project looks at how to improve messaging on Ukraine to the British, Ukrainian and other governments, and to the public generally, as well as on how to better regulate and respond to the vast amounts of anti-Ukraine and anti-West propaganda. click here
(1) In addition to sending emergency medical kits to areas affected by the war, the BUCC supports, including by helping to raise funding for: – Ukrainian Action – Pickups for Peace – Pulse Charity – International Charitable Foundation “Health of the Ukrainian People” and its “Save the Limb” national programme – International Support Ukraine Fund
(i) Increasing British LLM Programs in Ukraine. click here
(ii) Scholarships to study in the UK. click here
(1) BUCC October Networking Reception with a presentation by Roman Waschuk, the Ukrainian Business Ombudsman, speaking on the “Business Climate in Ukraine” held at Premier Palace Hotel, Kyiv City Centre in central Kyiv on Thursday, 2 October 2025 Click Here For More
(2) USUBC and BUCC hosted an exclusive Breakfast Roundtable with a Delegation of Members of the UK Parliament held on 11 September 2025 by the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC) and the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC). The event featured a discussion on Ukraine’s path to recovery, including the country’s immediate and long-term reconstruction needs,securing energy independence, creating favorable conditions to attract and safeguard international investment, and strengthening cooperation in the defense sector Click here for more
(3) BUCC September Networking Reception, addressed by Bohdan Nahaylo, Editor-in-Chief of the Kyiv Post, on Ukraine’s wartime situation, held on 4 September 2025 at the Rooftop Terrace of the Premier Palace Hotel in central Kyiv Click here for more
(4) BUCC August Networking Reception on 11 August 2025 at the Rooftop Terrace of the Premier Palace Hotel in central Kyiv. The keynote address was delivered by Simon Woodiwiss, Director of Objective Ukraine LLC, a British risk advisory (click here for more) Click here for more
(5) BUCC July Networking Reception on 11 July 2025 on the Need for Enhanced Judicial Rule of Law as a Basis for Investment, Reconstruction and Recovery in Ukraine in Response to the War Situation, including on the BUCC’s initiative to create a Swedish-style Ukrainian Judicial Ombudsman in order to prevent investors from losing their businesses and assets from judicially facilitated improper seizure, held at the Premier Palace Hotel in central Kyiv (click here for more) Click here for more
(6) June BUCC Networking Reception, addressed by Dmytro Natalukha MP, Member of the Ukrainian-British Parliamentary Friendship Group – Thursday, 5 June 2025, Premier Palace Hotel, Kyiv City Centre Click here for more
The British Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC) aims to promote business, trade and investment by Ukrainian, British and international companies and individuals in the UK and Ukraine. For this, we organise projects and other special initiatives, including through our committees, and hold conferences, events, webinars, etc., as well as corporate responsibility, cultural and sports programmes. , we especially aim to do whatever we can to help Ukraine and Ukrainians resist, survive and resist Russia’s illegal aggression.
In particular, we develop proposals to solve Ukraine’s most important problems for businesses, such as Judicial Ombudsman proposal to address Ukrainian court corruption and the MIGA based proposal for Ukraine to increase the availability of political/conflict risk insurance for businesses (described above).
The BUCC also supports the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly the British Commonwealth) including by holding events focused on Commonwealth nations.
THE BUCC IS BUSINESS FOCUSED: We endeavour to help Members improve their businesses and facilitate their finding suitable business opportunities.
The BUCC was originally established in 1997 by its founders under the auspices of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry through its Embassy in London and the UK Department of Trade and Industry to promote trade and investment between the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Our founder members
include AON Group Ltd., Law Offices B.C.
Toms & Co, British Petroleum plc, De La Rue plc, First Ukrainian International Bank, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Procter & Gamble Company, Shell International Ltd, Thomas and Adamson, Ukraine International Airlines and Unilever plc..
We provide numerous events for professional and personal development and networking, holding breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and receptions (e.g. at the Leopolis Jazz Fest in Lviv and the Read More
(1) Promote your business to the BUCC community and beyond. (2) Participate in BUCC Committees. (3) Join B to B Matchmaking: you can meet potential new business partners and contacts.
The bucc can Assist you to open dialogs with the relevant government bodies, to raise important issues and propose initiatives to improve the conditions for business in Ukraine. Your voice sounds louder together with other businesses.
(1) Receive publication with news and updates, including from our Members. Share your news with our BUCC community! (2) Members have subscriptions to Ukrain Financial News (UFN),Read More
Our members can request BUCC visa support letters for British visas for their employees (subject to the BUCC’s individual review of each proposal).
The BUCC’s New Membership E-Card permits BUCC members to receive significant (5% to 40%) discounts at leading restaurants, hotels, shops and other establishments Read More
For Membership and other payments to the BUCC
