Bosnian Cultural Centre - Midlands
Charity 1118585
Overview
Summary
Bosnian Cultural Centre - Midlands appears to function as a community anchor for Bosnian people in the Midlands, combining practical support with cultural, educational, health and faith-related roles. Its remit extends beyond direct relief: it seeks to reduce exclusion and distress while sustaining Bosnian Muslim identity and building religious harmony. The available evidence suggests a broad, place-based support model centred on a specific diaspora community, though it does not yet show how services are delivered or which relationships make this model effective.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bordesley and Highgate
Confidence: low
The Charity Commission records a contact address and states that the charity provides buildings/facilities and owns and/or leases land or property. However, a contact address and property information do not, by themselves, establish operational activity in this ward, and the available sources do not independently document a current programme timetable there.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, Bosnian Cultural Centre - Midlands (charity 1118585)
Lists a contact address; records that the charity provides buildings/facilities and owns and/or leases land or property. - Birmingham City Council, Bordesley and Highgate Ward Action Plan 2022–2026
Contains ward-boundary information, but does not establish the charity's operational activity in the ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence does not specify which services are currently delivered in Highgate, their frequency, or whether the contact address is used for any of the charity's activities.
- The Charity Commission's current self-reported 'where the charity operates' field includes Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional operational footprint, but the available material does not identify the sites, projects or delivery partners responsible for activity in those places.
- No authoritative current evidence was found of additional Birmingham delivery venues, neighbourhood-specific programmes, or partnerships that materially extend the organisation's reach within Birmingham.
- Current services, events and partner arrangements could not be verified from the organisation's official website.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, timetable or annual-report narrative identifying services delivered at the Cultural Centre and any other venues.
- Current evidence from the organisation or named partners showing how services are delivered across the other West Midlands local authority areas reported to the Charity Commission.
- A current list of formal delivery partners, referral arrangements or hosted activities that operate from the Cultural Centre or elsewhere in Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Education/training
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A community anchor rather than a single-purpose service
The organisation appears to address interconnected needs—poverty, health, education, advocacy, culture and faith—rather than treating disadvantage as a single issue.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie in offering a trusted route into multiple forms of support for people whose needs can span practical, social and cultural dimensions.
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“Its objects include relief from need, protection of physical and psychological health, and advancement of education and training.”
Source:Charity Commission“It promotes education and training, advocacy and research to further health and poverty relief and alleviate social exclusion, distress and sickness.”
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Cultural and religious continuity is part of its support model
The centre appears to view cultural belonging and Bosnian Muslim religious life as integral to wellbeing, not as separate activities added to welfare provision.
Why it matters
This helps explain why a cultural centre may be especially significant for a diaspora community: it may strengthen identity, trust and mutual support alongside formal assistance.
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“Its objects include advancing and preserving the Islamic religion and doctrines within the Bosnian Muslim community.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its stated activities include religious activities and arts, culture, heritage and science.”
Source:Charity Commission
It may be positioned as a bridge beyond its own community
Although focused on Bosnian people and their families, the organisation appears to have an outward-facing ambition to connect with non-Bosnian religious leaders and promote harmony.
Why it matters
This may make it relevant not only as a specialist community organisation, but also as a potential contributor to wider intercultural and interfaith relationships in the Midlands.
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“Its objects include developing stronger relationships with Bosnian and non-Bosnian religious leaders to advance religious harmony.”
Source:Charity Commission“It helps people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services are currently delivered directly, and which depend on referrals or partner organisations.
- Whether the centre reaches people beyond its established Bosnian Muslim networks.
- What relationships it currently has with schools, health services, advice providers or faith groups.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent service descriptions, beneficiary numbers and examples of support provided.
- Information about current partners, referral routes and interfaith activity.
- Evidence of how children, older people and disabled people are included in practice.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Bosnian Cultural Centre Midlands is seeking to provide support for the disadvantaged Bosnian community by promoting education and training, advocacy, and research, so as to further health and poverty relief, and to alleviate social exclusion, distress and sickness.
Charity objects
1 TO RELIEVE PEOPLE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE MIDLANDS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS AND FAMILIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR OTHER NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES II TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF SUCH PEOPLE MENTIONED ABOVE III TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR SUCH PEOPLE MENTIONED ABOVE IV TO ADVANCE AND PRESERVE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION AND DOCTRINES WITHIN THE BOSNIAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND TO DEVELOP STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS WITH BOSNIAN AND NON-BOSNIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS HARMONY