Welcome to Grameen UK

Since the mid 1970s one of the world’s most inspiring thought leaders, Muhammad Yunus, has developed a programme of micro credit that today spans the world and has assisted in lifting millions of the poorest people from poverty, transforming their lives and those of their children and communities.

There is now a chance to bring this to the UK to help in the fight against long term welfare dependency and multi-generation unemployment among some of our poorest communities. 

Professor Yunus has led the development of a system of micro credit – the original – which is based on trust and minimal paperwork, which benefits 20 million borrowers around the world. Some $20.5 billion has been provided in loans and around 98% repayment rates are consistently achieved throughout the Grameen micro credit partners. 

Muhammad Yunus began his Grameen Bank programme in Bangladesh more than 35 years ago, and today it operates successfully in more than 40 countries, including the USA, Turkey and Mexico. Professor Yunus hopes that it will soon open its first pilot branch in the UK.

Grameen UK is an independent charity supporting the introduction of micro credit initiatives across the UK that conform to the Yunus model, known universally as the Grameen (Village in Bengali) system.