The Bengali Education Centre

Analysis

The Bengali Education Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 2004, 22 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. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05023551). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Bengali Education Centre reported income of £24k and spending of £20k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £33k to £24k (-28%), an average of -7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 13370%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Bengali Education Centre sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Testimony Assembly, Birmingham (£24k), The Michael Varah Memorial Fund (£24k) and Shiv Shakti Maa Meldi Society (£24k).