BRITISH GURKHA NEPALESE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1166791 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BGNA

1. ESOL at The Yellow, Wembley2. Health & Wellbeing/Interaction, Barham Park Library Wembley3. Yoga at The Yellow, Wembley4. Advice, Advocacy and Representation ongoing5. Lief in the UK & English/Nepali language at Barham Park Library Wembley

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY: A) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND IN VOCATIONAL SKILLS; B) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION; AND C) THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY. (2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE FROM MINORITY ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS, BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

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

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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)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 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

• Kamal Bahadur Rana
• Rukum Rana
• Santa Bahadur Gurung

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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