Afro Innovation Group (AIG) is a BAME-led registered charity which has operated in the city of Leicester since 2006. We work with a wide range of communities and service users, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including voluntary, public and private bodies. Since forming, our main focus has been on work with BAME communities, including new migrants to the UK (including EEA families), refugees, asylum seekers and those from lower income families in the city, county, and the Midlands region, and since 2015, nationally across the UK. 

We are an ambitious organisation and want to grow the services we offer. Those we assist often require long term support following trauma, family loss, mental health issues or abandonment. Along with our core advice work, we are adding an affordable housing component to our work, and we are also creating an international venture. After many years of working in partnership with more established local international NGOs, we are planning to establish an office in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Our overarching aim is to empower our service users to access essential services in the UK in order to help them create a sustainable future for themselves and their families.