Social programmes
Community Interest Company. Grant-funded. Asset-locked. Runs StartNewLife, Skybow, She, SiBot and Mendee.Water — free for the people who need them, accountable to the people who fund them.
London · est. 2022 · refugee-founded
AI for human dignity.
A small refugee-founded outfit in East London. We build multilingual tools for Russian-speaking and Central Asian refugees that the bigger organisations don't reach. Sustained by AI translation work we do commercially. Quietly proud of the mileage.
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Dual structure
Two legal entities. One mission.
We separate social programmes from commercial services by law, not by accident. Funders see their grants stay 100% in the mission. Clients of our paid services know their fees fund refugee programmes they may never meet.
Commercial services
Trading as PRVD.LDN. Provides certified document translation (perevod.london, ITI affiliate) and a migrant affiliate hub (svoi.uk). Revenue cross-subsidises CIC programmes — by deed, not by promise.
Impact
Numbers funders ask for.
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people reached
across community channels in 7 languages
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in grants delivered
GLA + Innovate UK + QMUL · fully accounted
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languages we serve
EN · RU · UK · KK · KY · TG · UZ
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records in our directory
Every UK GP, lawyer, refugee charity, translator — kept fresh monthly
Mendee CIC
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Programmes
Five social programmes funded by grants, donations and our LTD's commercial revenue. Each one is free for the community it serves.
StartNewLife
Free multilingual healthcare and asylum navigation for refugees. GP registration, NHS guidance, interpreter help.
↗ startnewlife.uk
Skybow
Anonymous safe space for LGBTQ+ people from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus settling in the UK.
↗ skybow.org
She
Health, safety and legal information for migrant women experiencing domestic violence. Quick-exit built in.
↗ she.startnewlife.uk
SiBot
RecognisedAI assistant answering refugees' real questions about healthcare, asylum and housing. Won the Mayor's Prize 2023.
Start to Prove
NewAI-powered volunteer outstaffing — matches immigrants with community tasks, builds verified records for UK Earned Settlement, leads to paid work.
Mendee AI Station
Dream projectAI-optimised desalination of brackish groundwater. Founder's dream project — opens 24 km³/year of untapped reserves.
Mendee Digital Ltd
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Services
Two commercial products. Both serve migrants directly. All revenue flows back into our CIC's social mission.
Certified document translation
Home Office, tribunal, NHS and university translations. ITI affiliate, ICO registered, professional indemnity insured. Russian, Tajik, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Ukrainian.
↗ perevod.london
Migrant affiliate hub
Curated guides and partner deals for Russian-speaking migrants in the UK — banking, SIM cards, money transfers, first-month essentials.
↗ svoi.uk
Recognition
Funded by people who do diligence.
Government R&D, academic enterprise support, and corporate philanthropy — three different kinds of funder, three different kinds of diligence.
Greater London Authority
Mayor's Challenge LDN 2023 · Winner
Innovate UK (UKRI)
AI research & development grant
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Partners
Organisations we work alongside.
Want to fund or partner?
We talk to grant officers, impact investors, corporate CSR leads, and organisations whose mission overlaps with ours. One email, one human reply — usually within 48 hours.