Registered charity (CIO) · Reading
Bengali Cultural Society, Reading
- 10 trustees
- Income £64k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is Bengali Cultural Society, Reading. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
- Archana DasChair · since 2022
- Arpita TalukderTrustee · since 2023
- Chandan BhowmikTrustee · since 2021
- Irana MukherjeeTrustee · since 2026
- Krishnandu SarkarTrustee · since 2026
- Rana RAYTrustee · since 2026
- Ratna GhoshTrustee · since 2021
- Samik ChakrabortyTrustee · since 2026
- Sanjoy PaulTrustee · since 2021
- Shubhendu DasTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Reading
- Website
- www.bcsreading.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£64k£52k
- 2024£64k£52k
- 2023£46k£48k
Earlier years
- 2022£21k£20k
- 2021£11k£4k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN READING AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS: A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BENGALI AND INDIAN CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND HERITAGE, INCLUDING THE MUSIC, ART, LITERATURE, TRADITIONS AND HISTORY OF BENGAL AND INDIA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.B) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE ANDC) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Archana Das Chair since 2022
- Arpita Talukder since 2023
- Chandan Bhowmik since 2021
- Irana Mukherjee since 2026
- Krishnandu Sarkar since 2026
- Rana RAY since 2026
- Ratna Ghosh since 2021
- Sanjoy Paul since 2021
- Samik Chakraborty since 2026
- Shubhendu Das since 2026
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Archana Das Chair since 2022
- Arpita Talukder since 2023
- Chandan Bhowmik since 2021
- Irana Mukherjee since 2026
- Krishnandu Sarkar since 2026
- Rana RAY since 2026
- Ratna Ghosh since 2021
- Sanjoy Paul since 2021
- Samik Chakraborty since 2026
- Shubhendu Das since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1161671
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Association Registered 14 May 2015
- Contact on the register
- 01189416783 · bcsreading@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data