BANGLADESHI MENTAL HEALTH FORUM

Registered charity 1128579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MIND MATTERS LONDON

The BMHF prides itself on being a grassroots organisation that aims to raise awareness of mental health and support people on a local level. Our current work involves organising local mental health awareness raising event/workshops, supporting people by organising local activities (social/educational) and one to one support.

Objects

3.1 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH OFBANGLADESHI PEOPLE LIVING IN LONDON WHO HAVE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, THEIR CARERSAND FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY,WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, GROUPS, PERSONS, LOCALLY ANDINTERNATIONALLY AND BY ORGANISING SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, RESEARCH AND THEPUBLICATION AND CIRCULATION OF INFORMATION.3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF BANGLADESHI MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS ANDOTHER MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS WHO PROVIDE A SERVICE TO THE BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 22/02/2025, 22 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 26/02/2024, 26 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 12/03/2023, 40 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 06/03/2022, 34 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shamsun Islamchair
• Kamrun Naher Khanom
• MYRA GARRETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shamsur Choudhury

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Operates in: Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets

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