Bangladesh Council

Analysis

Bangladesh Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bangladesh Council reported income of £40k and spending of £20k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 8727%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bangladesh Council sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Huxham Charitable Trust (£40k), Christ Apostolic Church Mount Joy (£40k) and Anjuman-E-Naqueb-Ul-Islam (£40k).