BASINGSTOKE MULTICULTURAL FORUM

Registered charity 1158076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BMF

Promotion of cultural diversity in North Hampshire. Working towards social cohesion of various communities living in Basingstoke and surrounding area. Important part of our work is fighting social exclusion of disadvantaged and elderly people.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:A) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL, FAITH AND CULTURAL GROUPS;B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACIAL, FAITH ANDCULTURAL GROUPS;C) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, FAITH AND CULTURE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss of £6,901.80 for the year ended March 2025, resulting in total payments exceeding receipts. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted bank reserves of £51,288.00 at the end of the period.

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 4 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amol Attarde
• Ananthakrishnan Sankaranarayanan
• Debashree Bag
• Jaroslaw Trembacz
• Nitin Ramchandran Patil
• Shibaji Shrestha · trustee of 1 other charity
• Syed Mohammad Adeel Hasan Kazmi

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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