Our history

Cintra (formerly Cambridgeshire Interpreting and Translation Agency) began life in 1995 as a pilot project, set up and funded by Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Authority and North West Anglia Health Authority.

The project was set up because of community and voluntary sector pressure and a recognition of the needs of multi-ethnic communities by the founding service providers. It was designed to explore how interpreting and translating services could best be provided for these public sector agencies at a time of growing inward migration.

A Cambridge City Council employee, Nicky Glegg, was seconded to lead the project and subsequently became Cintra Ltd�s first Chief Executive and later its Chair. She left the company in November 2007, to manage a project in Nepal.

In 1997, Cintra Ltd became a separate company limited by guarantee, and the core funding from its founders ceased, although they have all remained clients of Cintra Ltd. Cintra now receives no core funding and generates all its revenue from its trading activities.