Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

BENGALI WORKERS ASSOCIATION 

- GENERALIST WELFARE ADVICE- SPECIALIST ADVICE ON HOUSING, IMMIGRATION, FINANCE & WELFARE RIGHTS- INFORMATION, ADVICE & GUIDANCE ON EMPLOYMENT, ENTERPRISE, EDUCATION & TRAINING- OLDER PEOPLES SERVICES INCLUDING CRITICAL & SUBSTANTIAL NEEDS- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT (PARENTAL, FAMILY & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT)- GENERIC & OUTCOME FOCUSED YOUTH WORK- LUNCHEON CLUB & COMMUNITY CAFE
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 30 years

www.bwa-surma.org

02073887313

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£170£179£-9n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£90£233£-143n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21*£338£196£142n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£152£188£-36n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£267£302£-35n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£179£203£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£227£228£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£221£194£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£213£228£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£232£265£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£298£344£-47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£364£361£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£436£430£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£388£348£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£388£348£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£337£331£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£329£348£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£311£311£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£283£273£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£253£237£16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£227,269
DCMS£83,613
The London Community Foundation£19,959
Camden Giving£5,955
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bengali Workers Association
£189,200 18/11/2022
60
£189,200 over five years (£37,660; £35,160; £36,920; £38,760; £40,700) towards BWA’s Older People’s Project, including safeguarding training costs, a 15 hours p/w Project Co-ordinator, a 15 ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bengali Workers' Association
£10,000 11/12/2020
6
To provide food and essentials on a monthly basis to 50 Bangladeshi and South Asian families experiencing significant financial hardship owing to loss of income due to becoming unemployed, unable to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bengali Workers Association
£38,069 11/09/2020
towards providing information, guidance and advice on employment, training and welfare benefits, as well as older people services and advice for young people, as outlined in your application.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£83,613 19/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bengali Workers' Association (BWA)
£9,959 17/04/2020
Our BWA priority remains the welfare of our clients and colleagues. We intend to offer following activities: • Arranging food pack deliveries to vulnerable and needy households • Calls to those ....more
Camden Giving - Bengali Workers Association - Covid19 Charity Fund
£5,955 09/04/2020
Arranging food pack deliveries to vulnerable households, Calls to those at risk and our regular members to check how they are doing, Providing free information and advice on the pandemic. The grant ....more
Camden Giving - Phoenix Youth Community Programme
£99,150 02/10/2018
35
The project enables a regular programme of youth activities (including generic & outcome focused youth work, homework club, workshops, social action, dance, drama, song and spoken word); focusing ....more
Sport England - Dance All
£7,930 25/10/2017
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Dance All. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment & Skills Project
£9,636 30/08/2017
12
This project will provide an employment support service for local people, enabling them to learn new skills and helping to develop a stronger local community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment and Enterprise project
£179,460 11/05/2011
36
This is a new project that will offer employment support to BME people in Camden. It will provide an information and advice service for those with existing skills and/or work record who need ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-69
  • SALIK MIAH (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Social Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/1994, number: 1039551
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/03/1994, number: 02903924
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 71 days late, AR14: 11 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR09: 14 days late, AR07: 38 days late,
Main office

SURMA COMMUNITY CENTRE
1 ROBERT STREET
LONDON
NW1 3JU

Objectives

A)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN B)TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST THE INHABITANTS OF CAMDEN C)TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURETIME OCCUPATION TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR LOCAL PEOPLE

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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