CROYDON BME FORUM

Registered charity 1108843 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CBF

To provid opportunities for BME communities to discuss and prioritise the key issues affectingthem to a view to engaging decision and policy makers at the local level to factor in their prioritiesand planning and delivery public services.To build the capacity of BME voluntary and community sector organisations, To promote good relations between different races, building a cohesive Croydon.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION PERSONS FROM MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, BY ASSOCIATING COMMUNITY GROUPS, VOLUNTARY AND NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN A COMMON EFFORT TO: I. RELIEVE POVERTY HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS II. ADVANCE EDUCATION III. PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH BY SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £53,368 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £451,620, which it considers sufficient to meet its reserves policy target of 3-6 months of operational expenditure, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Hartley Fowler LLP. 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04996963

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paulette Lewis MBE — Chair (source)
• Andrew Brown — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• SMITH, Diane — director, appointed 01/04/2024on trustee list
• PATEL, Maltiben — director, appointed 07/03/2022not on trustee list
• MIRZA, Ghazala — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• WITTER, Viviene Elaine — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• LEWIS, Paulette Beatrice — director, appointed 19/01/2020not on trustee list
• KUMAR, Ashok — director, appointed 21/02/2006on trustee list
• CHANDRABABU, Vidyadharan — director, appointed 21/02/2006not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £320k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAULETTE LEWIS MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ASHOK KUMAR
• CHANDRA BABU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Diane Smith
• GHAZALA MIRZA · trustee of 2 other charities
• MALTI PATEL
• Viviene Witter · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Croydon · Lambeth · Lewisham · Merton · Richmond Upon Thames · Sutton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASIAN RESOURCE CENTRE OF CROYDON LIMITED.

• ASIAN RESOURCE CENTRE OF CROYDON LIMITED income £736k
• CROYDON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £615k
• MIND IN CROYDON LTD income £2.3m
• WEST CROYDON BAPTIST CHURCH income £199k
• ALHIDAYA CROYDON income £594k
• BRADFORD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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