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GURU RL&VllDLkSg DpJAw• COMMUNITY CENTRE CEhiv? Annual Report 2025

ANNUAL REPORT 2025

CONTENTS

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|||| |---|---|---| ||President’s Foreword|Page 3| ||Secretary’s Report|Page 4-5| ||Executive Committee|Page 6| ||Trustees|Page 7| ||Mission Statement & Aims of SGRS|Page 8| ||Highlights 2025|Page 9-19| ||ESOL, Classes & Website|Page 20| ||Auditor’s Report|Page 21| ||Accounts|Page 22| ||Acknowledgements|Page 23| ||Contact details|Page 24|

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PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD

MR. JASWINDER KUMAR

Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha & Community Centre Bedford is a multicultural organisation, serving everyone regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, or ability.

The Centre is named after ‘Sat Guru Ravidass Maharaj Ji , a great teacher and a visionary of the 15[th ] century who was born in India and spent all his life promoting justice, fairness and equality and the universal fact that there is only one God and we are all His creation. His teachings lead us towards being decent human beings and law-abiding inhabitants of this earth.

The Organisation was established in the early 1970’s has served the community extensively with funds raised from the Ravidassia Community of Bedford.

All work on the new build has steadily continued which had been postponed for post lockdowns, began in the third quarter. The auspicious occasion 26th January, 2024 will be the opening ceremony of the extension to the Prayer hall and the Langar hall.

The Guru Ghar Seva Dars will continue to serve the Communities needs and move forward with the progress made.

On behalf of SGRScc Bedford Das would like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate all Seva Dars, trustees, donors and contributors for their selfless service and commitment in steadily and safely running all operations at Sri Guru Ravidass Bhawan & Community Centre, Bedford.

With full support of the Trustees and Ravidassia Community the Management Committee will aspire to take this organisation to more modern levels in it’s future outlook & conduct, keeping within the teachings and guidance of Sat Guru Ravidass Maharaj Ji.

Jai Gurdev Ji

Jaswinder Kumar (President SGRScc Bedford)

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GENERAL SECRETARY’S OVERVIEW

MR. PRATHVI RAJ RANDHAWA

GENERAL SECRETARY’S ANNUAL REPORT 1/8/2024 – 31/7/2025 PRESENTED AT THE PUBLIC MEETING: 25/01/2026

JAI GURDEV JI

Das would like to thank everyone for attending today’s meeting and would like to take this opportunity at this Public Meeting to present to you our annual report of the progress made since the last annual meeting held on the 05/01/2025.

You have all received a comprehensive end of term financial report from our Guru Ghar Treasurer and Auditors for the period, 1/8/2024– 31/7/2025.

Today’s report covers the period 05/01/2025 – 25/01/2026.

Beginning January 2025 saw president Jaswinder Kumar of Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha & Community Centre Bedford listed on the Kings New Year’s Honours List Awards for BEM in recognition for his work in the Bedfordshire Community.

26[th] January 2025 saw the opening ceremony and celebrations of the New Darbar Sahib Ji and Langar Hall.

It was well attended and celebrated in the community.

On the 31[st] January Dass (selfless servant/volunteer) took a statement from the committee member at the gurughar office as she had contacted me earlier in the week regarding the incident.

On the 1[st] February 2025 Dass (selfless servant/volunteer) met both sangat members who had been aggrieved at the Gurughar office as they were delivering food for the arranged sukhmani sahib path for the next day, Sunday 2[nd] February 2025. One statement was given

On the 2[nd] February 2025 whilst in the office prior to the programme starting upstairs I was handed a letter by the president outlining the immediate complete ban imposed on one of the aggrieved by the committee that convened on the 28[th] January 2025. This letter was handed by security to Pritpal Singh as he tried to enter the premises for the Sunday’s programme.

On 31[st] January Dass (selfless servant/volunteer) received an email outlining an incident that happened upstairs in the Darbar Sahib Ji between one of the committee member and two sangat members regarding their etiquette whilst in the Gurughar and were asked to leave the Darbar Sahib and go downstairs to the langar hall.

Dass has summarised this issue as it has evolved from a media post trolled by the aggrieved at the president which was not resolved internally, subsequently he has taken further legal action against members of the committee

Two other formal complaints were however dealt with internally and settled reasonably.

The 648[th] Gurpurb was celebrated at Sri Guru Ravidass Bhawan and In Houses of Parliament

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GENERAL SECRETARY’S OVERVIEW

MR. PRATHVI RAJ RANDHAWA

The efforts of Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha & Community Centre, Bhagwan Valmik Sabha and Ambedkar Mission Society saw the recognition of 14[th] April as Equality Day by the Bedford Council

The Family sea side trip to Bournemouth was well attended as previous years.

As you are all aware of phase two of the project, new community centre building has started in October 2025 with the foundations and screed floor in place, next will be the steel frame structure to be put up.

Das (selfless servant/volunteer) would like to take this opportunity to thank the Sangat for the patience and immense financial support you have given and continue to give for the completion of the building.

A visit by the Immigration Officers was successfully completed, regarding our standards and requirements for the sponsorship licence for our religious workers (Gianni’s)

Gianni Harbans Singh Ji’s application was successful and is with us and Dass is pleased to announce that Gianni Balvir Singh Ji has his stay extended for a year.

With God’s grace guiding us through these challenging times, sevadars have continued to serve the Communities

Das would like to take this opportunity and on behalf of Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha Bedford Sewadars (Executive Management Committee) to pay our respect and condolences to all families who have been affected during these past couple of years and thank the trustees, all sangat, every sewadar and public officials who have supported us immensely and tirelessly.

Thank You.

JAI GURDEV JI

Prathvi Raj Randhawa (Gen.Sec.SGRScc Bedford)

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MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

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SRI GURU RAVIDASS SABHA TRUSTEE’S

Mr Satveer Badhan

Mr Om Parkash Bagha

Mr Hazara Ram Bains

Mr Mohan Singh Bains

Mr Chain Ram Mr Charan Singh Mr Ram Saran Suman Mr Gurchain Singh Sunyara

Mr Harmesh Bangerh

Mr Ram Parkash Bangerh

Mr Tarsem Bangher

Mr Prem Chand Basra

Mr Sada Ram Bhatti

Mr Gurmel Singh Chamber

Mr Mehar Chand Ghera Mr Sohan Singh Jhalli

Mr Sodhi Ram Mahi

Mr Baldev Raj Nighah

Mr Chaman Lal Paul

Mr Satpal Paul

Mr Surinder Paul

Mr Tarsem Paul Mr Michael Ram

Mr Mohinder Ram Sandhu

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MISSION STATEMENT

Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha and Community Centre Bedford is a multicultural Centre and aims to meet the social and cultural needs of the diverse local communities of Bedfordshire, improving quality of life of the users of the centre, and encouraging tolerance, understanding and harmony without discrimination of race, colour, caste, creed, religion, gender, ability or sexual orientation.

Aims

 EQUALITY, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, CHARITY, TOLERANCE and UNDERSTANDING.

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IN THE COMMUNITY COMPLETION OF THE NEW PRAYER HALL & LANGER HALL

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NEW PRAYER HALL & LANGER HALL OPENING DAY CEREMONEY

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NEW PRAYER HALL & LANGER HALL OPENING DAY CEREMONEY

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PROCESSION AT SGRBcc

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IN THE COMMUNITY

Guru Piari Sadh Sangat Ji Jai Gurdev Ji

You are cordially invited to the Opening Day for the New Darbar Sahib Ji (Second Worship Hall) & Langhar Hall (Communal Dining Hall) Sunday 26[th] January 2025 at12:30pm

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CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION
THIS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT
Jai Gurdev Ji ……………………………………
Your generous donation (selfless Seva) of .................... is tremendously
appreciated for project 2020, a new extension for the second Darbar
Sahib Ji & Langhar Hall at Sri Guru Ravidass Bhawan & Community
Centre Bedford
President General Secretary Treasurer Date
Sri Guru Ravidass Sabha & Community Centre Bedford MK 40 1ED Register Charity: 1120489
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REMEMBERANCE

CHATTRI MEMORIAL BRIGHTON

SRI GURU RAVIDASS BHAWAN

&

COMMUNITY CENTRE BEDFORD

KEMPSTON

MEMORIAL

BEDFORD

MEMORIAL

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The Community Development Centre, (formerly known as the Learning Centre) was funded by the Big Lottery Fund and has been running ESOL and IT classes successfully where learners from all communities of Bedford are welcome to learn and socialise in a safe and friendly environment. Learners of basic computers and ESOL are taught by tutors from Bedford College and WEA.

Funding from Bedford Borough Council (Third Sector Funding) allowed us to purchase 10 more laptop computers. Extra furniture was made available to update the classrooms.

Punjabi classes held every Sunday.

Tabla & Harmonium classes for children and adults held every Tuesday.

Passport surgery held every Monday evening for Sangat seeking help in passport, visa or OCI applications.

This year we have continued to redevelop our website for improved accessibility to news, events and services including archive material and provision for You Tube with a link to the organisations website. The website is available on www.gururavidasssabhabedford.com.

This site will allow us to offer our services to a wider audience of the Bedfordshire community. It will allow direct access to donors to make donations to SGRScc Bedford.

We will update all on our forthcoming programmes and also list facilities our organisation can provide at the New Community Building & Development Centre.

We are hoping that with todays changing technology we can utilise this medium to further our organisation and increase visibility.

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AUDITOR’S REPORT 2024 - 2025

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ACCOUNTS 2024 - 2025

SUMMARY

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THANKS TO:

GURU RAVIDASS LANE BEDFORD MK40 1ED TEL: 01234 359681

EMAIL: GURURAVIDASS@BTINTERNET.COM

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