SUNDERLAND BANGLADESH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1085598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUNDERLAND BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY CENTRE

The objects of the centre are: to promote the benefit of the community in the City of Sunderland, primarily the Bangladeshi and other BME communities and especially those suffering from the effects of unemployment and other forms of social deprivationto promote and provide facilities in the intereset of social welfare in the fields of recreation, leisure, education,self help and otherwise.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF OF THE INHABITANTS AND PRIMARILY THE BANGLADESHI INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT"), WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR RACE OR POLITICAL, OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS , THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO:(I) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SAID INHABITANTS; AND(II) PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS IN THE INTEREST OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND(III) RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENTB) ESTABLISH AND SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECT.

Area of benefit: THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,743,168 against expenditure of £465,199, resulting in a net movement of funds of £210,262. The trustees report that free unrestricted reserves of £136,379 are consistent with their policy of holding three to six months of running costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Torgersens. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 27/03/2026, 55 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Syed Musaddique Ahmedchair
• Bushra Rahman · trustee of 1 other charity
• MD Shahen Ahmed
• Mollik Shohid Ahmed
• Motlib Miah
• Ruksana Miah
• Sabina Rokib
• Shahida Parveen
• Syed Akhlaque Miah
• Syed Foyzul Islam
• Syed Shoyzhad Miah
• UTTARA GHOSH
• syeda shilpe chowdhury

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE.

• BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE income £36k
• SHAHJALAL ISLAMIC CENTRE & MASJID income £127k
• BANGLADESH CENTRE LEEDS income £66k
• BANGLADESH WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £149k
• IPSWICH AND SUFFOLK BANGLADESHI MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE AND MOSQUE income £177k
• BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CENTRE ST ALBANS income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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