THE PANJABI CENTRE LTD

Registered charity 1065534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PANJABI CENTRE, THE PUNJABI CENTRE LTD

Radio Broadcasting to the Panjabi commuities and raising awareness and development of PanjabiLanguage and Culture

Objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF PUNJABI LANGUAGE, HISTORY AND CULTURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£135k
Latest spending
£197k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an Annual General Report containing narrative descriptions of activities and events, but it does not include financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserves data. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Trustee Ajit Khera is a Director of City West Digital Ltd, which won the DAB Multiplex license for Desi Radio.
“Our Trustee Ajit Khera is the Director of City West Digital Ltd along with Lawerence Galkoff, Paul Boon and Usha Parmar. This social enterprise company won the DAB Multiplex license that was advertised by Ofcom. Desi Radio will be on air in West London on DAB platform hopefully in the month of August 2025.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Corporate structure

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£135k£197k
31/03/2024£119k£177k
31/03/2023£136k£165k
31/03/2022£149k£170k
31/03/2021£177k£168k

Common questions

Is THE PANJABI CENTRE LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is an Annual General Report containing narrative descriptions of activities and events, but it does not include financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserves data. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from the text.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/01/2017£26k"Songs of Separation"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund20/01/2015£10k"Phulkari, the Art of Embroidery: sharing the heritage of Phulkari"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/03/2012£19k"The Hidden History of Panjabi womens inner voices."
The National Lottery Community Fund10/11/2011£10kDotcom West
The National Lottery Community Fund09/01/2007£10kWomen's Media Training Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AWEN CULTURAL TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE PANJABI CENTRE LTD£135k—0unclear—no doubt
AWEN CULTURAL TRUST FY2025£7.1m—0unclear—no doubt
ISLAMIC SOCIETY FOR WALES FY2025£265k—0unclear—no doubt
THE LONDON IRISH CENTRE FY2025£4.1m——unclear—no doubt
LOUGHBOROUGH GOSPEL HALL TRUST FY2025£454k—0unclear—no doubt
BARKING AND DAGENHAM AB PHAB YOUTH CLUB FY2025£139k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.