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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. GK Partners work with: Social Enterprises – making them more enterprising and financially viable; Commercial Enterprises – making them more socially and environmentally responsible; Public & International Institutions – 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).

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.