BANGLADESHI PARENTS AND CARERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1082770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A variety of educational, welfare, health care, social and leisure based activities for adults with learning difficulties,A Day Care Centre for People with Learning, Physical and Sensory Disabilities.Providing skills based training in ICT, Life Skills to People with Disabilities

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OVER THE AGE OF 18 LIVING IN LONDON, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE WHO ARE OF BANGLADESHI OR ASIAN ORIGIN AND LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS OR IN AN ADJOINING BOROUGH, BY THE PROVISION OF DAY CARE IN THEIR OWN HOME AND/OR RESIDENTIAL CARE AND BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS.

Area of benefit: TOWER HAMLETS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£682k
Latest spending
£676k
Registered
2000
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £6,256 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward standing at £841,459. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of at least three months of expenditure, estimated at £169,500, which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted fund balance. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“During the year Mrs Shamimara Choudhury, Chief Executive Officer received remuneration amounting to £68,930.Total remuneration and benefits (including employer's NIC contributions ) paid in respect of key management during the year total £236,514” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months expenditure (estimates at 169,500) (held: £841k)
“It has established a policy whereby unrestricted fund not committed or invested in fixed assets held by the held by the Charity should be at least three months expenditure (estimates at 169,500).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

CQC provider record: Bangladeshi Parents and Carers Association — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 19/06/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£682k
Total spending
£676k
Reserves (reported)
£841k
Employees
33

Reported reserves equal ~14.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

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£682k£676k
31/03/2024£681k£675k
31/03/2023£647k£668k
31/03/2022£754k£681k
31/03/2021£825k£591k

Common questions

Is BANGLADESHI PARENTS AND CARERS ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £6,256 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward standing at £841,459. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of at least three months of expenditure, estimated at £169,500, which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted fund balance. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/03/2021£46k(wave 5 LCRF) BPCA