Bangladesh Partnership

Analysis

Bangladesh Partnership is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in April 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bangladesh Partnership reported income of £16k and spending of £21k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £89k to £16k (-82%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Bangladesh Partnership sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary Club of Newtown Trust Fund (£16k), Women's Institute - Milford-On-Sea (£16k) and Rotary Club of Mansfield Benevolent Fund (£16k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.