Empowering Communities
Centre for British Bangladeshis (CfBB)
About us
Our history
Centre for British Bangladeshis (CfBB) was founded in 2020 during the wake of Covid19 to support BAME communities, particularly the UK Bangladeshi community. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people in the UK are over twice as likely to live in poverty compared to their white counterparts. British Bangladeshis in the UK are the second highest income-deprived (26%) community after the Pakistani heritage (31%).
Our vision
One in 10 Bangladeshi adults is likely to be unemployed, compared with one in 25 white British. Working in conjunction with community leaders and mainstream politician, the CfBB offers a positive engagement in tackling social depredation and poverty, and contribute to providing equality of opportunity for all. Our vision is to help create an equal society where people from all communities are placed at the heart of every development that ensures social justice and equal opportunity.
Key objectives
- Raising socioeconomic, educational, and cultural awareness
- Supporting the advancement and understanding of issues that impede community development.
- Tackling social inequalities and racism
- Dealing with longstanding health inequalities
- Supporting tackling unemployment and housing overcrowding
- Holding politicians accountable for, political transparency
What we do?
- Organise social, cultural, and environmental activities through channelising community energy into constructive and creative directions
- Debate and discuss on national and local issues, particularly concerning Bangladeshi issues
- Work with other statutory and voluntary organisations
- Lobbying to central and local government on the issues that matter
- Contribute to research, education, and employment that benefits to the Bangladeshi community
- Play a strategic ThinkTank role on the issues that matter to BAME groups and the Bangladeshi community
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