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This project successfully funded on 25th September 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
The Sattva Collective CIC
Bedford, United Kingdom
Aim
The UK's first community-led initiative supporting South Asian women through midlife & menopause. Breaking the silence. Building community.
There is a silence around midlife and menopause in South Asian communities that has gone on for generations.
South Asian women reach their forties and fifties carrying enormous physical, emotional, and cultural weight; hormonal shifts, identity changes, caregiving responsibilities, and the inherited belief that the only acceptable response is to keep going quietly. Without language for what they are experiencing. Without spaces that understand their specific reality. Without support that truly sees them.
The Sattva Collective CIC was founded to change that.
We are the UK's first community-led Community Interest Company dedicated entirely to South Asian women in midlife and menopause. Founded in May 2025 by Kiran Singh, alongside her daughter Khushi Kaur as Co-Director, we are an intergenerational organisation built with legacy in mind for the South Asian women of today and the generations who come after them.
In our first year, entirely self-funded and driven by community commitment, we have:
- Published over 60 original articles, cultural essays, health guides, and interviews on the realities of South Asian women's midlife experience
- Hosted monthly Sattva Women's Circle gatherings, in-person, culturally grounded spaces where South Asian women come to feel less alone.
- Built a growing directory of culturally aware practitioners and support organisations.
- Been featured in Eastern Eye, Asian Image, DESIblitz, Asian Voice, London Daily Digital, Legacy Woman Magazine, FORCE Magazine, and South Asian Heritage Trust.
- Launched an annual Thrive Through Midlife & Menopause Summit, taking place in Spring 2027 at The Centenary Hall, Bedford.
- Founded Sattva Day, the UK's first annual awareness day dedicated to South Asian women's midlife experience, observed every 14th May
- Launched My Sattva Story, a year-round storytelling campaign inviting South Asian women to share their experiences in their own words
Everything we create is free and accessible to the women we serve. Every article, every gathering, every resource is available to any South Asian woman who needs it, wherever she is.
What your support makes possible
Your donation goes directly into sustaining and expanding the work of The Sattva Collective. Specifically, it enables us to:
- Keep our website, content platform, and Substack running and growing
- Host the Sattva Women's Circle monthly: providing a warm, accessible space for South Asian women in Bedfordshire and beyond
- Produce culturally grounded health guides, articles, and awareness campaigns throughout the year, including Sattva Day each May
- Grow our directory of culturally aware practitioners, so more South Asian women can find support that genuinely understands them
- Develop and deliver the Thrive Through Midlife & Menopause Summit in Spring 2027
- Cover the essential operational costs of running a not-for-profit organisation that has, until now, operated entirely without funding
Why it matters
South Asian women are significantly underserved in the menopause and midlife conversation. They are more likely to experience earlier menopause, more severe symptoms, and higher risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis at midlife, yet they are among the least likely to seek or receive appropriate support.
The cultural silence is not harmless. It costs women their health, their financial independence, their sense of self, and years of their lives spent suffering alone when support was available, if only they had known it existed, and if only that support had been built for them.
The Sattva Collective exists so that fewer South Asian women have to pay that cost.
This is a movement. It is growing. And with your support, it can reach every South Asian woman who needs it.
With love and Sattva,
Kiran Singh, Founder & Director,
The Sattva Collective CIC
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made