Jasvir is a prolific community activist and leading figure in the British South Asian community. He’s a practising family law barrister and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. He’s a trustee and patron of several regional and national charities within the faith and minorities sector, including City Sikhs and the Faiths Forum for London, as well as LGBTQ+ charities such as the Kaleidoscope Trust amongst others. He is the Co-Founder of South Asian Heritage Month, an annual awareness month which celebrates and commemorates South Asian arts, culture, history and identity. He was honoured with an OBE in 2017 and a CBE in 2023 for his extensive community work, and he was awarded the ‘Alumnus of the Year’ by King’s College London in 2023.

In 2021, he was appointed one of the Mayor of London’s Commissioners for Diversity in the Public Realm. As a result of the Commission’s work, at least two new memorials will be unveiled sometime in 2026, namely a memorial in Docklands honouring the victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, as well as London’s first monument dedicated to the impact of HIV/AIDS.