Grassroots Initiatives For Development Of India
Charity 1106976
Overview
Summary
Grassroots Initiatives For Development Of India appears to be a broad civic-development organisation linking charitable purposes in India and England with community-level activity in India. Its stated work combines practical inclusion—such as school enrolment, women’s self-help groups and forest participation—with public education and advocacy around governance, rights and equality. The available evidence suggests an organisation designed less around one specialist service than around enabling communities to organise, participate and access development opportunities.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but does not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue, project location or delivery partner.
- The charity's stated activities concern India, including women’s self-help groups in Orissa, school enrolment, community radio and forest protection; the available record does not demonstrate that these activities are current.
- The registered contact address is in Oldbury, Sandwell, rather than Birmingham, and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- The charity reports no owned or leased land or property, so there is no evidence of a physical service base in Birmingham.
- Its reporting is substantially overdue and its latest financial information is for the year ended 31 March 2016, limiting confidence that the recorded operational geography remains current.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustees’ annual report, annual return or activity update identifying services delivered in Birmingham and their locations.
- Current official website or social-media content confirming active Birmingham projects, events, venues or delivery partners.
- Evidence from named partner organisations or funders confirming the charity's present role and geographic reach within Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A community-capacity model rather than a single-service model
The organisation appears to work by strengthening local participation and collective capability across several issues, rather than concentrating on one narrowly defined beneficiary group or intervention.
Why it matters
This helps explain why its activities span education, governance, women’s groups, environmental protection and media: these may be connected through a common aim of helping communities influence their own development.
Show evidence
“Activities include community radio, promotion of Women Self Help Groups, awareness on good governance, school enrolment and forest protection through community participation.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides advocacy, advice, information, research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission
Communication may be a strategic tool, not a standalone activity
Community radio may indicate that the organisation uses locally accessible communication to support awareness, participation and accountability across its wider programme.
Why it matters
If so, the radio activity could be an important connective capability: linking otherwise separate work on governance, education, equality and environmental participation.
Show evidence
“Community Radio is listed among recently initiated activities.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include advancing public education in health, environment, arts and culture, human rights, gender and social equality through training, workshops, conferences and seminars.”
Source:Charity Commission
Women’s economic participation and local governance may be connected
Support for women’s self-help groups alongside governance awareness suggests the organisation may see economic self-organisation and civic voice as mutually reinforcing.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially distinctive role: not only supporting livelihoods or equality separately, but helping groups build the confidence and structures needed to participate in public life.
Show evidence
“Activities include support for promotion of Women Self Help Groups in Orissa and awareness on good governance.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include human rights, especially gender and social equality.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether activities are delivered directly, through local partner organisations, or through a mixture of both.
- How England-based charitable purposes relate in practice to the organisation's India-focused activities.
- Which communities are reached, at what scale, and whether the listed activities remain active.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or project updates showing locations, partners, participant numbers and outcomes.
- Information on community radio content, governance work and the role of women’s self-help groups in programme design.
- Details of grants, delivery partners and relationships between work in India and England.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Highlights of Activities that have been initiated recently by GIDI: 1. Community Radio 2. Support for promotion of Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Orissa. 3. Awareness on good Governance: 4. Enrolment drive for school going children 5. Protection of Forest through Community Participation:
Charity objects
A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF INDIA AND ENGLAND INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS & SUFFERING; B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, ARTS AND CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS ESPECIALLY GENDER AND SOCIAL EQUALITY BY PROVIDING TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS WHICH THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE.