Amal Women

What Amal Women does

Amal Women Ireland is a Muslim women-led registered charity (RCN: 20206879) founded in 2016 and headquartered at 163 S Circular Rd, Merchants Quay, Dublin 8, operating nationwide across Ireland. It delivers free frontline services to Muslim women and women connected to the Muslim community, including a helpline, weekly coffee mornings, structured women support (crisis intervention and domestic violence response), youth services, refugee outreach in Direct Provision centers, cultural advocacy and mediation, and the Yellow Sticker Initiative — a hate crime victim-assistance scheme that marks partner local businesses as safe reporting points. The organization also runs a diverse training portfolio covering advocacy, maternity preparation, Arabic-language mental health, English language instruction, driver theory preparation, and needle felting.

The business model is donation- and grant-based rather than commercial: all services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries, with funding sourced from community donations, fundraising, and grants from institutional partners including the Irish Fund for International Development (IFI), the Department of Justice, Women's Aid, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI), and the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR). Amal has no proprietary technology platform, mobile app, or software product — operations are conducted through direct human service delivery, community outreach, and volunteer-driven programs. In 2021, Amal commissioned the research project "A Mother Is Born Too" with Maynooth University, funded by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, demonstrating an intent to influence policy through evidence as well as service delivery.

Name

Amal Women

Legal name

Amal Women Ireland

Website

https://amalwomenirl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Amal Women Ireland is a Muslim women-led registered charity founded in 2016 in Dublin that delivers free frontline community services — including a helpline, cultural advocacy, refugee outreach, youth programs, and training — to Muslim women and those connected to the Muslim community across Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community and Social Support Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Gender Equality & Women’s Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Integration & Inclusion Services (Housing, Education, Employment) (BPADAHAI), Gender Equality & Women’s Rights (BPADAGAF)

Keywords

• Community support services
• Women support services
• Refugee assistance
• Cultural advocacy
• Community outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin 8

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Amal Women Ireland is a Muslim women-led registered charity providing free frontline services to Muslim women and women connected to the Muslim community across Ireland. Core offerings include a helpline, one-to-one advice and signposting, Coffee Morning community gatherings, refugee family outreach in Direct Provision centers, youth programs, cultural advocacy and mediation (including court accompaniment and translation), and a Yellow Sticker safety initiative in partnership with local businesses. All services are provided free of charge and funded through donations, fundraising, and grants.

Product overview

Amal Women Ireland is a Muslim women-led charity organization that provides frontline services to Muslim women and women connected to the Muslim community across Ireland. Their service portfolio is organized around community support programs (Coffee Morning, Youth Services, Refugee Support), safety initiatives (Yellow Sticker/Safer Community Initiative), advocacy and mediation services, and community/cultural projects. They also offer various training programs including advocacy training, maternity classes, mental health classes, English language instruction, and arts programs. The organization operates as a service-based charity rather than a technology product company, with no commercial software products or platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coffee Morning Weekly community gathering held every Wednesday from 10am to 12pm at South Circular Road Mosque where women can connect, access advice sessions, English classes, craft courses (e.g., needle felting), and support services. Free to attend and open to Muslim women and women connected to the Muslim community in Ireland.
• Women Support Services Frontline services providing confidential advice, support, and crisis assistance for women—particularly those experiencing gender-based violence—and help accessing health and mental health services, social welfare, and other mainstream supports.
• Youth Services Youth work spaces and programs for young Muslim people, including camps, workshops, internet safety training, and filmmaking workshops to help them explore and celebrate their cultural identity.
• Refugee Support Services Support for refugee families in Direct Provision centers across Ireland, including home visits, donation distribution, Eid festival attendance, and Ramadan food packs. Covers centers in Portlaoise, Roscommon, Mosney, Co Meath, Co Kildare, and Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen.
• Yellow Sticker Initiative Safer Community Initiative partnering with local businesses to provide immediate assistance to victims of hate crimes and racist attacks by displaying a yellow sticker in windows as a visible sign of help, with trained staff offering seating, water, and emergency contacts.
• Cultural Advocacy and Mediation Advocacy and mediation services including case analysis, forms assistance, referrals to relevant services, translation, and court accompaniment for victims of gender-based violence and race-based crime.
• Helpline and Contact Service Confidential helpline and email contact point for women in crisis or seeking advice, with phone numbers +353 89 612 2893, +353 87 661 2020, +353 89 946 2689 and email [email protected].
• Advocacy Training Training courses helping women engage with service providers and increase their network of contacts within the community.
• Maternity Online Classes Online classes for pregnant women providing prenatal education and peer support.
• Arabic Mental Health Classes Mental health support and education classes delivered in Arabic for community members.
• English Language Classes Regular English language instruction offered to women and community members to help overcome language barriers.
• Driver Theory Test Preparation Test preparation courses for the Irish driver theory test.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Women's AidcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWomen's Aid partnership for supporting women experiencing domestic violence and providing referral pathways.
• Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMigrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) partnership for supporting migrant and refugee communities.
• Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerINAR (Irish Network Against Racism) partnership for addressing racism and discrimination experienced by the community.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dublin Rape Crisis Centre: Specialist frontline service for survivors of sexual violence in the greater Dublin area. Overlaps with Amal's helpline, counselling referrals, and crisis support for women.
• AkiDwA: Irish network of African and migrant women, providing advocacy, support, and policy work for women of minority ethnic backgrounds. Closely mirrors Amal's women-led, culturally specific service model and policy advocacy.
• Irish Refugee Council: National independent organisation supporting asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland, including those in direct provision. Direct overlap with Amal's refugee support and Ramadan/Eid provision work.
• Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre: National minority-rights and anti-racism organisation working with Traveller and Roma communities in Ireland. Comparable model combining community development, women's support, and policy advocacy.
• Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI): Justice-and-migrant-rights organisation supporting migrant workers and families, including undocumented people. Overlaps with Amal's migrant integration, discrimination response, and partnership network.
• Nasc (Cork Migrant and Refugee Rights): Cork-based charity providing migrant and refugee advocacy, legal support, and integration services. Comparable to Amal's refugee direct-provision outreach and cultural advocacy work.
• Women's Aid (Ireland): National federation providing direct services to women experiencing domestic violence in Ireland. Directly comparable to Amal's gender-based violence and front-line support work; they are also an active referral partner.
• Cairde: Dublin-based NGO supporting ethnic minority communities through health advocacy, training, and integration support. Comparable multi-service delivery to minority women and families, with overlapping training and referral functions.
• Irish Network Against Racism (INAR): Network addressing racism in Ireland through advocacy, casework, and the iReport hate-incident reporting platform. Directly comparable to Amal's Yellow Sticker hate-crime response and race-based crime advocacy.
• Spirasi: Dublin-based NGO providing integration services for refugees and asylum seekers, including English language, employment support, and cultural orientation. Directly comparable to Amal's English classes, advocacy training, and refugee resettlement work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AmalIRL
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/amal-women
• Instagraminstagram.com/amal_women_group

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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