ASIAN RESOURCE CENTRE OF CROYDON LIMITED

Registered charity 1120376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Capacity Building/Infrastructure support to Asian voluntary groups including Training, Seminars/Workshops. ICT, Monitoring & Evaluation Project, Social Enterprise, Health Awareness, Community Leadership Programme as well as Inter-Faith Projects. The charity consults with a wide range of groups and agencies in the Borough and makes representation to decision makers on their behalf.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CROYDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. IN PARTICULAR THEY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE ASIANS OR OF ASIAN ORIGIN:1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND GRANTS;2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS ON HEALTH;3 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS;4 PROMOTE GOOD RACE RELATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: 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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased slightly to £736,119 from £802,529 in the prior year, while expenditure was managed down to £731,716, resulting in a net income surplus. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £200,573, which the trustees consider sufficient against their policy target of six months of unrestricted charitable expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Asian Resource Centre of Croydon (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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

• Ashokkumar Balakrishnan
• Bhavin Patel
• Bipin Patel
• Chetna Kapacee · trustee of 1 other charity
• DILSHAD SURELIA
• Dr Suraj Mani Paudel
• Hussein Ghor
• Kanchan Sharma
• MR SOMASUNDARAM KANAGASUNDARAM
• Rumel Ahmed Jahur

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

Operates in: Croydon · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAVERING ASIAN SOCIAL AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

• HAVERING ASIAN SOCIAL AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £202k
• CROYDON BME FORUM income £1.6m
• CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO income £763k
• COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM LAOS AND CAMBODIA income £131k
• GO HELP ASIA TRUST income £265k
• CROYDON CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £615k

Side by side with its peers

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