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Registered charity · Surrey

Croydon BME Forum

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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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

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 34% · Government grants 58%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

8 grants · £283,177 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

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

11.2y median 15y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (4)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Economic/community Development/employment 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 8Health and social care 2Business services 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

22 from 40 in 2022
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
92%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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 4th October 2026
Labels
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