Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 6

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 3

BANGLADESH WOMENS ASSOCIATION

Provision of education and employment training facilities to women, provision of creche' facilities for mothers who attend the courses, organising employment and self emplyment related seminars and running a youth centre for young girls.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

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 recently

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	*	£51	£46	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£60	£72	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/21		£69	£66	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/20		£65	£66	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/19		£57	£62	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18	*	£49	£81	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£73	£86	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£102	£101	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£100	£79	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£91	£92	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£70	£101	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£65	£100	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£152	£144	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£133	£140	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£94	£123	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£130	£144	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£167	£139	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£133	£123	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£112	£127	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 35 years

bwaamina@yahoo.co.uk

01217667990

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Birmingham City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Digital Skills Project
£9,990	22/04/2022	The funding will be used to provide digital skills training for disadvantaged black minority ethnic (BME) women in Birmingham area. The project aims to increase women's confidence and communication ....more The funding will be used to provide digital skills training for disadvantaged black minority ethnic (BME) women in Birmingham area. The project aims to increase women's confidence and communication levels and help their mental health reducing their isolation depression anxiety.
Birmingham City Council - BAME Women’s Digital Skills Training.
£8,960	21/01/2021	Engaging with disadvantaged Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) women aged 50 plus who have English as a second language and have no previous digital skills. Learn digital skills and with ESOL ....more Engaging with disadvantaged Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) women aged 50 plus who have English as a second language and have no previous digital skills. Learn digital skills and with ESOL support in a friendly and culturally sensitive environment.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Befriending Women's Network Project
£9,990	13/11/2020 6	This project will support vulnerable older women form the BAME community with advice workshops that focus on COVID safety mental health domestic violence support money management and online safety. ....more This project will support vulnerable older women form the BAME community with advice workshops that focus on COVID safety mental health domestic violence support money management and online safety. These workshops with run for 24 weeks from January-July 2021.
National Lottery Community Fund - Food and Friendship Project
£9,990	12/09/2019 12	The funding will be used to deliver cooking activities for women from the local Bangladeshi ethnic community. The project aims to strengthen and bring together the local community, resulting in ....more The funding will be used to deliver cooking activities for women from the local Bangladeshi ethnic community. The project aims to strengthen and bring together the local community, resulting in people feeling less isolated.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bangladesh Women's Association
£30,000	29/06/2012	the salary of the Manager and a contribution towards overheads

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

SHAHEEDA CHOWDHURY

TAHMINA ISLAM

DR EBA PASHA Appointed: 2017

MALIKA BEGUM

MRS B N PASHA

MRS L KHANDAKAR

MS KOLPANA BEGUM

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/11/1988, number: 700917

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission
Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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

19 returns made; AR23: 1 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR14: 12 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR10: 118 days late, AR07: 247 days late, AR06: 90 days late, AR05: 50 days late,

Main office

497 COVENTRY ROAD
SMALL HEATH
BIRMINGHAM
B10 0JS

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. 2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. 4. EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RACE RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE MIDLANDS WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIS OF BIRMINGHAM

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