West London Bangladesh Welfare Association

Background

West London Bangladesh Welfare Association (WLBWA) was started in 1975 by a group of restauranteurs and students to assist newly arrived and established Bangladeshi people living West London. The founders of WLBWA were concerned by the extent of the language and cultural barriers amongst Bangladeshi communities and the impact of these barriers of their access onto education, employment, public services and community life. WLBWA also indentified the immense need for appropriate information, advice and language support for newly arrived immigrants.

WLBWA quickly became and remains today a cross-borough organisation meeting the specific needs of Bangladeshi communities living in Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hounslow, Hillingdon, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Richmond which as minority communities experience marginalisation and exclusion.

Aims & Objectives

The West London Bangladesh Welfare Association (WLBWA) strives to improve the quality of life for Bangladeshi community in the West London area, helping people to become self-sufficient and successfully integrated into UK society whilst maintaining the integrity of their cultural, religious and linguistic identity.

The current objectives of the Association are:

1. To relieve and overcome poverty amongst the deprived and disadvantaged Bangladeshi's in the West London and surrounding areas through provision of advice, information, spiritual and physical development.

2. To promote the advancement of education, arts, leisure and social welfare amongst the disadvantaged Bangladeshi and other minority group, increasing learning amongst families of local communities.

3. To promote resources for economic regeneration by providing training to the youth and adult, combating social exclusion and disadvantaged, making a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce in the national business.

4. Promoting technology transfer, working in the education and training support framework.