BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION HERTFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1054581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The specific aims of 'BIHCAH' are: providing relief for former Bosnian refugees and their dependants in Herts. Preserving and protecting their physical and mental health. Advancing their education, training, employment and integration into British society and local community. Promoting Bosnian culture, language and heritage; linking and co-operating with local organisations and authorities.

Objects

(1)TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR ALL PEOPLE FROM BOSNIA RESIDING IN HERTFORDSHIRE AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR IN DISTRESS AND ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES (11)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUCH REFUGEES AND DEPENDENTS. (111)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN NEED THEREOF TO ENABLE THEM ADVANC EIN LIFE AND ASSIST IN THEIR REHABILITATION WITHIN THEIR ADOPTED COUNTRIES OF RESIDENCE.

Area of benefit: HERTFORDSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net surplus of £10,309.17 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total receipts of £25,026.00 against total payments of £14,716.83. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £12,135.51, which the Trustees consider appropriate to support ongoing activities. The charity had no paid employees or outstanding liabilities at year-end.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adis Balic
• Admir Svraka · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELMIN PEPELAR
• Emina Gunic - Elkazevic
• Ismet Balic
• MBE Sabit Jakupovic
• SABAHUDIN SALDUMOVIC
• aldin paratusic

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hertfordshire

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Government & lottery funding

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