Registered charity · Surrey
Croydon BME Forum
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paulette Lewis MBEChair · since 2018
- Ashok KumarTrustee
- Chandra BabuTrustee
- Diane SmithTrustee · since 2024
- Ghazala MirzaTrustee · since 2010
- Malti PatelTrustee · since 2011
- Viviene WitterTrustee · since 2011
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 6 other charities:
- Kcwa Trust LTD · 1 shared trustee
- The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Christ Church Broad Green Croydon · 1 shared trustee
- The Association of Jamaicans (UK) Trust · 1 shared trustee
- The Nurses Association of Jamaica (UK) · 1 shared trustee
- Croydon Voluntary Action · 1 shared trustee
- Elmwood Community Centre · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton and more
- Website
- www.cbmeforum.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Croydon BME Forum
- Registered
- 2005
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£1.4m
- 2024£1.6m£1.3m
- 2023£1.1m£1.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£942k£822k
- 2021£349k£288k
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION PERSONS FROM MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, BY ASSOCIATING COMMUNITY GROUPS, VOLUNTARY AND NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN A COMMON EFFORT TO: I. RELIEVE POVERTY HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS II. ADVANCE EDUCATION III. PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH BY SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
7 trustees on the board
- Paulette Lewis MBE Chair since 2018
- Ashok Kumar
- Chandra Babu
- Diane Smith since 2024
- Ghazala Mirza since 2010
- Malti Patel since 2011
- Viviene Witter since 2011
Trustees past 6 years
- Paulette Lewis MBE Chair since 2018
- Ghazala Mirza since 2010
- Malti Patel since 2011
- Viviene Witter since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Ashok Kumar
- Diane Smith since 2024
- Malti Patel since 2011
Portfolio (4)
- Paulette Lewis MBE Chair since 2018
- Chandra Babu
- Ghazala Mirza since 2010
- Viviene Witter since 2011
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1108843
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 DECEMBER 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 9 MATCH 2005.
- Companies House
- Company number 04996963 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02086843719 · INFO@bmeforum.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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