Civilian Welfare Foundation (CWF) is a women-led NGO founded in Kolkata in 2011, with offices in Kolkata, Bolpur and Delhi-NCR. For fifteen years we have worked where disability, gender, education and healthcare meet. If you lead CSR at an Indian company and are looking for an implementing partner in West Bengal, this page sets out what we do, how we are registered and how to start a conversation.

Why partner with CWF

We are an intersectional organisation. Our programmes reach people who often fall between the gaps of other schemes: women and children with disabilities, transgender and LGBTQIA+ people, child labourers and tribal communities in rural Birbhum. We design work that is inclusive, innovative and inexpensive, and we measure it. Our research has been carried out with Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and our work has been covered in over 400 media publications.

Compliance at a glance

CSR teams need clean paperwork. Here is ours:

• CSR-1 registration: CSR00010154 (eligible to receive CSR funds under Section 135)
• 80G: AACAP9946P25KL02
• 12A: AACAP9946P25KL01
• NITI Aayog / NGO Darpan ID: WB/2018/0191418
• Registered name: Poddar Park Civilian Welfare Foundation

Copies of certificates are available on request.

Our work mapped to Schedule VII

Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 lists the activities companies may include in their CSR policies. Our programmes fit these items:

• Item (i) – “promoting health care including preventive health care and sanitation”: CWF Labs runs diagnostics and research services in rural and tribal areas, including over 50 health camps in tribal villages in Birbhum and anaemia screening for 900 tribal women and children. We also hold gender-affirmative health camps in Kolkata and Delhi-NCR. During COVID-19 we distributed rations, menstrual hygiene and sanitisation kits to over 35,000 people.
• Item (ii) – “promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled”: Icchedanar Pathshala, our inclusive bridge school for child labourers, and India’s first paramedical training for individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Item (iii) – “promoting gender equality, empowering women ... and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups”: sports, skill-building and sensitisation programmes for women and transgender people, and Asia’s first transgender documentary team in North Bengal.
• Item (vii) – “training to promote rural sports, nationally recognised sports, paralympic sports and Olympic sports”: Advancing Olympism365 Bengal (sports training for 600 women with intellectual disabilities), India’s first National Para-Triathlon, mixed disability football, wheelchair cricket and the Walk for Paralympics.

Track record and recognition

• IFCCI (Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry) Best CSR Award 2022 for Icchedanar Pathshala
• IFCCI Best CSR Award 2025 for Advancing Olympism365 Bengal
• Special Olympics International innovation grant for Unified Theatre, India’s first theatre for persons with and without disabilities
• United Nations Global Youth Empowerment Fund support for a documentary on transgender healthcare
• Advancing Olympism365 recognised by the International Olympic Committee, Beyond Sport and Women Win
• Organiser of India’s first National Para-Triathlon and India’s first Tri-Nation T20 Wheelchair Cricket between India, Nepal and Bangladesh

Who we have worked with

Our past and present partners include Servier Pharmaceuticals (India) Pvt. Ltd., whose CSR funding supports education for around 100 child labourers; The Muthoot Group, which supported our international wheelchair cricket tournament; Medica Superspeciality Hospital; Quartz Info Media, a patron since 2012; Round Table India; Janine and Rahul Foundation; Child Rights and You (CRY); Special Olympics Bharat; the Wheelchair Cricket Federation of India; Junior Chamber International; and Five Mad Men. See the full list on our partners page.

How to partner with us

We can work with you in a few ways: funding an existing programme, co-designing a new project in your chosen Schedule VII area or geography, supporting a health camp or sports event, or sponsoring research. We share regular progress updates and the documentation your CSR committee needs.

To start a conversation, write to us through our contact page, email civilianwelfarefoundation@gmail.com or call +91-9830167177. Individuals who want to help can give through our donate page (80G tax benefit available).