Our Partners
Our partners are incredible grassroots organisations working to improve the lives of people in the UK and India every day. It is our privilege to be able to contribute to their work.
Aangan, India
Aangan, India
Aangan builds and strengthens child protection systems in India to ensure that the most vulnerable children are safe, supported, in school, and assured of childhoods free from exploitation. Their mission is to empower communities, strengthen public institutions and galvanize the broader ecosystem to take action to protect and ensure children’s rights.
Akshaya Patra, India and UK
Akshaya Patra, India and UK
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the largest free midday meal programme in the world, serving nutritious lunches to more than 2 million children daily at schools in India. Together in 2020 we launched the GMSP Akshaya Patra Kitchen in Watford. Using professional-grade manufacturing processes in an innovative kitchen, it provides fresh, nutritious and hot meals to thousands of children across London. Our shared goal is to help end holiday hunger and child food insecurity across the UK.
Arpan, India
Arpan, India
Arpan is a globally recognised non-government organisation (NGO) relentlessly working towards its vision of a world free of Child Sexual Abuse. Based in Mumbai, Arpan is India’s largest NGO providing Child Sexual Abuse prevention and intervention services to both children and adults. Since 2007, Arpan has impacted over 2 million children and adults through its programmes.
Blind School, India
Blind School, India
Blind School gives children with visual impairment the best start in life by providing a nurturing learning environment where personal growth is a major focus. We supported the School with the construction of a new building, giving children access to state of the art education and boarding facilities.
CORO, India
CORO, India
CORO works with some of the most marginalised communities in India, strengthening their collective action and leadership in order to fight for (and win) greater equality and justice. CORO focuses on issues such as women's empowerment, improving livelihoods, accessing natural resources and holding those in power to account.
Dasra, India
Dasra, India
Dasra is leading the growth of a strategic philanthropy movement in India, and is currently on a path to help transform a billion lives with the dignity and equity they deserve. Founded in 1999 as a venture philanthropy fund to invest in early stage non-profit organisations, Dasra is the bridge between strategic funders and strong NGOs in India. It focuses on building ecosystems around adolescent girls, urban sanitation, family philanthropy, grassroots organisations, migrant workers and vulnerable children.
iProbono, India
iProbono, India
iProbono is one of the leading justice organisations in Asia. By providing pro bono legal and business counsel to non-profit organisations, iProbono helps to strengthen civil society, litigate for people in need and advance equal justice.
Jan Sahas, India
Jan Sahas, India
Jan Sahas is a community based and survivor centric organisation, working in more than 14,000 villages and cities in India to provide support to the country’s most excluded communities. It works to ensure safe migration, prevent sexual violence against women and children, and ensure access to workers’ rights.
Majlis, India
Majlis, India
Majlis is a team of women lawyers and social workers that provides social and legal support to victims of child sexual abuse and domestic violence. Its mission is the protection and promotion of women and children’s rights through legal representation, advocacy and training.
Manav Sadhna, India
Manav Sadhna, India
Manav Sadhna fosters transformational change in marginalised communities through a range of initiatives which are based on people’s participation and evolve according to the needs of the community.
Mann Deshi Foundation, India
Mann Deshi Foundation, India
Mann Deshi Foundation empowers rural women entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills, access to capital and support to have more control over their personal and professional lives. Its business schools provide training aimed at building practical and entrepreneurial skills that help women set up and expand their business. Mobile schools are also run out of buses to offer courses to women in the most remote areas.
Quest Alliance, India
Quest Alliance, India
Quest Alliance transforms learning ecosystems in India through education technology, capacity building and collaboration to build 21st century skills for learners and facilitators. By 2023, Quest Alliance will have reached more than four million learners and facilitators across the country.
Shree Vidhyaguru Foundation, India
Shree Vidhyaguru Foundation, India
Shree Vidhyaguru Foundation manages and runs Shree Lallubhai Sheth Arogya Mandir, a free multi-speciality hospital offering high quality, modern healthcare services to the rural community in and around Savarkundla in Gujarat.
Sol's ARC, India
Sol's ARC, India
Sol’s ARC conducts innovative research to build inclusive education content for struggling learners. The team’s unique approach builds on special education principles that support children and youth from vulnerable communities to make education and employment accessible to them.
Swasth Foundation, India
Swasth Foundation, India
Swasth Foundation is a social enterprise in India committed to bringing health and joy to as many people as possible. Its work includes the provision of affordable and high-quality primary-preventive health services to historically disadvantaged communities.
The Cycle, India
The Cycle, India
The Cycle (formerly Sanitation First) unlocks the power of women and girls to build gender equality by providing safe and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services and improving menstrual health conditions.
Apna Haq, UK
Apna Haq, UK
Apna Haq, meaning ‘Our Right’ in Urdu, supports black and minority ethnic (BME) women and girls in Rotherham who are experiencing any form of violence, including domestic violence. Its long-term support helps women heal from the trauma of abuse and make the transition from crisis situations to safe, independent, violence-free lives.
Ashiana, UK
Ashiana, UK
Since 1989, Ashiana has provided refuge and support to women from South Asian, Middle Eastern and Iranian communities affected by Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG). In particular, women with no recourse to public funds and those experiencing harmful practices such as forced marriage and honour based violence. As a ‘led by and for’ charity, Ashiana has helped more than 10,000 women and has become a leading voice in the VAWG space in the UK.
Asian Women’s Resource Centre, UK
Asian Women’s Resource Centre, UK
Asian Women’s Resource Centre provides life-saving support to Black Minoritised Ethnic (BME) women and children affected by domestic abuse and harmful practices including forced marriage, honour-based and faith-based abuse. AWRC aims to end all forms of abuse to BME women; provide safe spaces for women across London and support women to make informed and independent decisions about their lives.
Centrepoint, UK
Centrepoint, UK
Centrepoint provides young people experiencing homelessness with accommodation, health support and life skills to get them back into education, training and employment. Centrepoint's mission is 'a job and a home' for every young person it supports, and has an ambitious organisational goal to end youth homelessness by 2037.
Crisis, UK
Crisis, UK
Crisis is one of the UK’s leading charities working to end homelessness. In the 55 years since they were founded, Crisis has helped tens of thousands of people out of homelessness, and continue to campaign for systemic changes so that everyone has a home to build a life and thrive.
Edge Fund, UK
Edge Fund, UK
Edge Fund is a participatory grantmaking body supporting grassroots organisations that work to advance social, economic and environmental justice, and to end imbalances of wealth and power. Since 2013, Edge Fund has awarded more than £600,000 across almost 580 local groups.
Food For All, UK
Food For All, UK
Food For All provides warm and nutritious vegetarian meals for those experiencing poverty in the UK using many ingredients that would otherwise be thrown away. Food For All has also been serving affected communities in Eastern Ukraine since the start of the war.
Hopscotch, UK
Hopscotch, UK
Going since WWII, in 1998, Hopscotch formally became a safe space for minoritised ethnic women and their families in their times of need. The organisation has helped thousands of women out of poverty, abuse and into employment. The elder women's services and youth provision have given hundreds of women and girls a place away from isolation, moving towards friendship and positive mental health.
Imkaan, UK
Imkaan, UK
Imkaan is the only UK-based, umbrella organisation addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. GMSP Foundation’s funding supports policy and advocacy work by Imkaan, acting as a collective voice to represent the expertise and perspectives of frontline, specialist and dedicated Black and minoritised women’s organisations that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.
SAHWR, UK
SAHWR, UK
SAHWR has provided specialist domestic abuse services in the UK since 1982. Open to anyone facing abuse, SAHWR works in partnership with Safer Places to offer people refuge, support and care.
Sangam Centre, UK
Sangam Centre, UK
Sangam is a Barnet-based organisation founded in 1971 to support new immigrants, particularly women, arriving from South Asia and East Africa. The team provides every client with a safe, culturally sensitive, accessible space to address their challenges and achieve their goals - whatever they may be.
Sisters for Change, UK
Sisters for Change, UK
Sisters for Change works to combat violence against women and girls through legal empowerment programmes, legislative reform and legal advocacy. GMSP partnered with Sisters for Change to publish 'Unequal Regard, Unequal Protection’ in 2017 to mobilise more funding and create social policy change in response to the needs of women from Black, Asian and minoritised communities.
Southall Black Sisters, UK
Southall Black Sisters, UK
Southall Black Sisters is a leading organisation that advocates for justice and provides support services to Black, Asian and minoritised women who experience domestic and sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence.
www.southallblacksisters.org.uk
Tender, UK
Tender, UK
Tender is an arts charity working with young people to prevent domestic abuse and sexual violence through creative projects and has been engaging young people in healthy relationships education since 2003. Tender works with primary, secondary and specialist schools and youth settings, delivering a range of workshops and programmes.
The Brilliant Club, UK
The Brilliant Club, UK
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that works with schools and universities across the UK. It mobilises the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.
Global Greengrants Fund, Global
Global Greengrants Fund, Global
Global Greengrants Fund supports people on the frontlines of climate change. Since 1993, it has provided more than $100 million to women, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and other marginalised communities around the world who play an essential role in advocating for and implementing local solutions that will protect the planet for future generations.
Think Equal, Global
Think Equal, Global
Think Equal is a global not for profit organisation helping to teach social and emotional learning for wellbeing and social justice to children from a very early age. Its goal is to end discrimination and cycles of violence before they even begin - working with children from the age of 3 to develop 25 competencies for positive life outcomes including greater socio-emotional intelligence, gender and racial equality, inclusion, and empathy.