Meridian Charter SOLUTIONS
Operational Solutions for Complex Environments

On the ground. In country. From day one.

Meridian Charter Solutions provides operational solutions for organisations working in complex environments. If you need to operate in Nigeria or another difficult setting, we can provide the local people, knowledge, infrastructure and operational capability to make it happen — including security where required. Led from Abuja by a team that has built operations from nothing in some of the world’s hardest environments.

Scroll · What We Do
01 In-Country Support

Your operating partner in Nigeria.

International companies, governments, NGOs and other organisations lose time and money in Nigeria to the things nobody planned for. MCS is set up to be the Nigerian partner that helps them establish and sustain operations here — a local company on the ground that can mobilise, represent, employ, procure and support, so the people who come in can get on with the work they came to do.

AbujaLagosKanoPort HarcourtMaiduguriEnugu
Based in AbujaCentral to the whole country · Lagos office · northern, eastern and Delta operations as the task requires

Standing up a presence from day one — premises, accommodation, vehicles, communications and the admin base, ready before the team arrives.

A Nigerian company that leases, employs, contracts and pays locally on your behalf, and represents your interests on the ground.

Liaison with federal, state and local authorities, communities and partners on the approvals and relationships a programme depends on.

Vehicles and vetted drivers, internal flights and road moves, with journey planning and management while teams are moving.

Local purchasing, contracting and vendor management — equipment, services and supplies sourced and accounted for.

Recruitment and employment of Nigerian staff, with contracts, payroll, tax and pension compliance handled in-country.

Visa, expatriate quota and CERPAC processes for incoming personnel, sponsored and managed with the relevant authorities.

Day-to-day running, reporting, banking and administration in naira and US dollars, so programmes stay on track and accountable.

Site, personnel and movement security built into the support plan where required, scaled to the assessed risk.

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02 Training & Capability

Building capability that stays.

Lasting results come from people, not just projects. MCS can design and deliver training and capability-development programmes for organisations working in complex environments — starting with an honest assessment of what is needed, and building solutions that transfer skills, knowledge and ownership to local teams.

  1. A structured assessment of existing people, programmes, systems and facilities to identify capability gaps, priorities and the interventions required before anything is designed.

  2. Curriculum, courseware, training governance, assessment and accreditation pathways matched to the organisation, its people and its operating environment.

  3. Train-the-trainer programmes that build a local instructor and assessor cadre able to deliver, assess and sustain training long after handover.

  4. Developing leaders and teams who can plan, decide and perform under pressure in demanding environments.

  5. Hostile-environment awareness, first aid, personal security awareness and crisis-management training for staff deploying to difficult locations.

  6. Measured milestones that progressively transfer responsibility and ownership of training to local institutions and staff, creating capability that can be sustained independently.

Step 01 · Assess

Training Needs Analysis

A structured assessment of existing people, programmes, systems and facilities to identify capability gaps, priorities and the interventions required before anything is designed.

Step 02 · Design

Programme Design

Curriculum, courseware, training governance, assessment and accreditation pathways matched to the organisation, its people and its operating environment.

Step 03 · Instruct

Instructor Development

Train-the-trainer programmes that build a local instructor and assessor cadre able to deliver, assess and sustain training long after handover.

Step 04 · Lead

Leadership & Team Development

Developing leaders and teams who can plan, decide and perform under pressure in demanding environments.

Step 05 · Protect

Hostile Environment & Safety

Hostile-environment awareness, first aid, personal security awareness and crisis-management training for staff deploying to difficult locations.

Step 06 · Hand over

Localisation & Handover

Measured milestones that progressively transfer responsibility and ownership of training to local institutions and staff, creating capability that can be sustained independently.

Integrated Expertise

MCS works with trusted specialist partners and subject-matter experts where additional expertise, accreditation, technology or delivery capacity is required. We assemble and manage the right team around the requirement while retaining responsibility for the overall solution and its outcomes.

03 Crisis & Humanitarian Response

When a place stops working, we get it running.

After an earthquake, a flood or a conflict, the hardest part is standing up an operation in a place where nothing works as it should. MCS is built to deploy to disaster- and conflict-affected areas and set up and run that operation for governments, NGOs, international agencies and companies — assessing needs, building shelter, moving aid and keeping teams safe — drawing on first-hand experience of doing exactly that.

First 24 hoursGet in, see clearly

People and equipment on the ground quickly after a disaster or displacement, with access, permissions and transport arranged locally.

Fast assessment of affected areas, people and routes in, so resources go where they are actually needed.

First 72 hoursShelter and supply

Planning and building shelters, tented camps and field facilities — from site layout through to handover.

Warehousing, convoys and distribution points for food, water and relief items, with an accountable record at every handover.

First week and beyondSustain and hand over

Kitchens, water, power and accommodation for affected communities and for the teams serving them.

Recruiting and managing local staff and volunteers, with security planning for work in unstable or hostile areas.

Founder’s Field Record · 2023–2025
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MCS was incorporated in 2026. These photographs record operations its founder led or took part in before the company was formed — the experience MCS is built on, not company contracts.

Benjamin Grant laying the floor of a field facility in Turkey
Turkey · 2023Building field infrastructure after the earthquake
Benjamin Grant checking a distribution manifest with a local coordinator in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Distribution-point logistics with local coordinators
Benjamin Grant handing water to firefighters on a burnt hillside in Greece
Greece · 2023Resupplying firefighters on the wildfire line
Benjamin Grant hauling a rope with a team of local volunteers in Turkey
Turkey · 2023Clearing ground with local volunteers in the earthquake zone
Benjamin Grant digging in a tent pole for a shelter in the Atlas Mountains
Morocco · 2023Building shelters in the High Atlas
Teams assembling rows of tent frames for a displacement camp in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Building a tented camp for displaced families
Benjamin Grant handing out supplies at a relocated children’s home in Israel
Israel · 2023Supplying a children’s home relocated by the conflict
Benjamin Grant among collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey
Turkey · 2023On the ground in Hatay after the earthquake
Benjamin Grant handing a box of aid to an elderly man in a Moroccan mountain village
Morocco · 2023Delivering aid to a family in a High Atlas village
Benjamin Grant carrying sacks of flour with a local aid team in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Moving flour with the local distribution team
Benjamin Grant moving sacks of supplies onto pallets in Turkey
Turkey · 2023Staging supplies at a field kitchen site
Benjamin Grant surveying earthquake damage in Turkey
Turkey · 2023Assessing damaged neighbourhoods after the earthquake
Aid being handed down from a truck to Benjamin Grant in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Moving aid from convoy to distribution with local teams
Benjamin Grant assembling a tent frame with a local worker in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Assembling shelters alongside local workers
Benjamin Grant carrying cases of water through a displacement camp in Gaza
Gaza · 2024Water distribution in a displacement camp
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04 Protective & Security

Protection, scaled to the risk.

Where security is required, MCS can provide it as part of the wider solution — assessed honestly and scaled to the threat. Operational personnel are recruited for each contract from police, ex-military and hostile-environment backgrounds, and placed under clear command.

RA
Risk Advisory

Threat & Security Assessment

Security surveys, threat and vulnerability assessments, journey risk, and contingency and evacuation planning for sites, teams and events.

CP
Close Protection

Executive & Delegation Protection

Protection for principals, executives and visiting delegations — low-profile or overt, with advance reconnaissance, route planning and secure transport.

SL
Secure Logistics

Consignment & Convoy Security

Escort and journey security for high-value goods and equipment, with route management and a documented chain-of-custody handover.

MG
Manned Guarding

Static & Facility Security

Vetted, supervised guarding for accommodation, warehouses and offices, delivered with licensed partners and integrated with the wider security plan.

05 Leadership
Benjamin Grant
Personnel · Founder & CEO

Benjamin Grant

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Benjamin Grant founded Meridian Charter Solutions on a career spent standing up operations where little or nothing existed. A former Royal Marines Commando, he went on to lead armed protective-security teams in Iraq, Kurdistan and Saudi Arabia — commanding expatriate and local national staff and delivering hostile-environment training to NGO personnel — and later served on frontline military operations in Ukraine.

In humanitarian crisis response he built operations from the ground up. After the 2023 Turkey earthquake he led site operations, procurement and logistics for field kitchens feeding thousands of people a day, and went on to do the same after the Morocco earthquake, the Greek wildfires and the conflict in Israel. He spent ten months leading operations inside Gaza, building the warehousing, convoys and local teams that kept aid moving, and later oversaw anti-trafficking and search-and-rescue deployments across South America.

A British–Nigerian dual national, he lives and works full time in Lagos and leads MCS directly.

Doctrine
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Every problem has a solution on the ground. We go there, take responsibility, and stay until it’s done.
— The Mandate