GK Partners

GK Partners are business and development advisers and consultants to socially responsible organisations and institutions. They provide business advice, policy guidance and strategic support to commercial, governmental and charitable organisations.[1] GK Partners work with: Social Enterprises[2] – making them more enterprising and financially viable; Commercial Enterprises[3] – making them more socially and environmentally responsible; Public & International Institutions[4] – making them more effective, efficient and equitable.

GK Partners uses multidisciplinary knowledge, skills and experience to provide advice, guidance and support to commercial, social and public enterprises and institutions – helping them to attain sustainable multiple bottom line outcomes. Their services include specialist programmes on: Access to Finance (A2F), Access to Property (A2P), Finance for Development (F4D) and Policy for Development (P4D).[5][6][7][8]

"GK Partners have worked with the Business and Intellectual Property Centre of the British Library, and financial institutions such as Triodos Bank and Charity Bank. The company had inputs in the negotiations and formulation of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Financing for Development agreements. GK Partners also provided evidence to the House of Commons International Development Committee on 'SDGs and Business' in October 2015."

GK Partners was registered as an independent UK company in 2004 by Gibril Faal and Katharine Ford who act as co-directors and principal advisers. They met in 2001 when they were recruited as the two specialist business advisers on a pilot project that developed and implemented a social enterprise business support system in the UK. The project was under the auspices of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), delivered by Business Link for London, which was the largest unit of the government’s national business support agency. By 2004, Gibril and Katharine were recognised as pioneers in social enterprise development in the UK. They already had between them decades of experience in business consultancy, research and development – having worked with FTSE100 companies, SMEs, social enterprises, voluntary organisations, charities, international NGOs, academic institutions and government bodies.

References

  1. ↑ "GK Partners". GK Partners. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Museum of London". Museum of London. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Social Investment Almanack". Social Investment Almanack. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Ealing Council" (PDF). Ealing Council. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Museums are already social enterprises". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Remittances could be as sustainable as international development finance". The Independent. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Banks urged to protect diaspora remittances". Voice Online. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Africa's quest for sustained economic growth". aljazeera. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
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