Name

Community Action Nepal

Legal name

Community Action Nepal

Website

https://canepal.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid & Community Development Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Development & Social Impact Programs (EDAIAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE), Community-Based & Indigenous-Led Ecotourism (THAAAEAH)

Keywords

• Humanitarian aid services
• Community development programs
• Education support services
• Healthcare programs
• Livelihood programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Hesket Newmarket

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: As a UK-registered charity, Community Action Nepal raises funds through donations, fundraising campaigns, and charitable giving. Major fundraising campaigns include earthquake relief efforts raising over £2.5 million for post-2015 earthquake reconstruction.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Community Action Nepal is a UK-registered charity that delivers health, education, livelihood and agriculture, and porter welfare programmes in remote Himalayan mountain communities of Nepal. The charity responds to community petitions for support, builds local ownership of programmes, and operates Community Action Treks as a responsible adventure travel sub-brand that generates funding for charitable work.

Product overview

Community Action Nepal operates as a unified charitable platform delivering four interconnected core programs: Health, Education, Livelihood & Agriculture, and Porter Welfare. These programs are delivered holistically in remote Himalayan communities, often within the same villages. The organization also runs Community Action Treks as a responsible tourism sub-brand that generates support for its charitable work. A notable initiative is the Build Back Better Programme for post-earthquake recovery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Health Programs Delivery of healthcare services and health education programmes to remote mountain communities in Nepal, including the construction and ongoing support of health posts and clinics, and placement of CAN Nurses in areas with previously serious lack of medical treatment.
• Education Programs Support for educational opportunities through the construction and maintenance of schools and educational facilities in remote Himalayan communities, aimed at improving literacy and learning access for mountain children.
• Livelihood & Agriculture Programs Agricultural development and livelihood support programmes designed to strengthen food security through sustainable organic food production in subsistence communities, including support for income-generating enterprises to promote economic independence.
• Porter Welfare Programs Programmes improving working conditions and welfare of expedition porters, including construction of Porter Rescue Shelters along trekking routes to provide safety and shelter for porters working in the Himalayas.
• Community Action Treks Responsible trekking service operated as a trading sub-brand of Community Action Nepal (now under Pure Trails from May 2024) that supports local communities while providing adventure travel experiences for trekkers in the Nepalese Himalaya.

Quantifiable outcome

• Tens of thousands of people supported in Nepal
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Pure TrailscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 May 2024Community Action Treks, a trading name of Community Action Nepal, has been taken over by Pure Trails. Community Action Treks continues to trade under the same name, preserving identity and reputation. Bhai B. Tamang has become Joint Director bringing continuity and trusted experience.
• Sir Chris Bonington CBEflagshipOthersSir Chris Bonington, who led the 1975 South West Face Everest expedition, is one of CAN's Patrons. He has endorsed the charity stating it is 'an outstanding charity. Well run and widely respected.'

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PHASE Worldwide: UK-registered NGO working directly with remote Nepali communities on integrated health, education, and livelihoods programmes — the closest structural match to CAN's four-pillar community-development model.
• dZi Foundation: Nepal-focused community development foundation working on education, health, and livelihoods in remote mountain districts — directly comparable mission and beneficiary geography to Community Action Nepal.
• Possible (formerly Nyaya Health): Integrated rural healthcare and community-development organisation in Nepal — comparable to CAN's combination of health-post construction, health-worker deployment, and community-led programme design.
• One Heart Worldwide: NGO focused on maternal and newborn health in rural Nepal — closely comparable to CAN's health-pillar work in remote Himalayan communities and a natural partner-or-competitor for rural-health funding.
• Gurkha Welfare Trust: UK-based charity supporting ex-British Gurkha servicemen and their families in Nepal, including welfare and community infrastructure — directly comparable UK-registered Nepal-welfare charity with donor base overlap in the climbing/military community.
• The Mountain Fund: US-based NGO founded by climbers for community development in Nepal's mountain regions — directly comparable as a climbing-heritage-driven community-development charity operating in the same villages CAN serves.

Broad incumbents

• Mercy Corps: Large international humanitarian organisation with active Nepal programming in disaster response and resilience — broad incumbent operating at much greater scale than CAN but in the same Himalayan community-development space.
• ChildFund International: Large international child-focused community-development NGO with Nepal programmes overlapping CAN's education and community-welfare work — broad incumbent in adjacent child-education/community-development space.
• CARE International UK: Major UK-registered humanitarian NGO with Nepal disaster-response and community-resilience programming — provides a broader-incumbent reference point against which CAN's niche Himalayan focus is differentiated.

Others

• Tearfund: UK Christian relief and development agency that funds and supports local partners in disaster response and community development — a funder/partner type that overlaps with CAN's model of channelling donations into local implementation in Nepal.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CommActionNepal
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCV7vzoeq0Hai5hi5sWfP2Kg
• Facebookfacebook.com/CommunityActionNepal
• Instagraminstagram.com/communityactionnepal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/community-action-nepal

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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