Bangladesh Educational Achievement Project or BEAP Community Partnership is a Bangladeshi community organization in Bradford, UK. Founded in 2004 as a charitable organization, BEAP Community Partnership provides a range of services, either through itself or with partners, to all communities in need, in particular the Bangladeshi community in Bradford.
Vision of BEAP Community Partnership:
- To address high levels of deprivation and disadvantage in the Bradford neighborhood, specially among the Bangladeshi Community;
- To engage with local people, helping them to form and action their own agendas for positive change (sustainable, and people oriented);
- To address issues arising from separation between local communities, including different form of conflict based on cultural diversity;
- To tackle isolation through projects which recognize and accept the importance of differences, while finding common ground; etc.
Priorities:
- Invest in community resources
- Build capacity and empower communities
- Promote working partnership
- Include older people into well being
- Build brighter future for women
- Invest in young people
- Create culture learning center
- Exercise cleaner, greener and safer environment
- Advocate for an enterprising communities
- Promote community involvement and community cohesion etc.
BEAP Community Partnership organizes sports events for Bangladeshi kids to build healthy attitudes, engage in positive activities, build character and leadership qualities, interact with fellow community members. The organization also has programs for adults: English class, exercise class, immigration advise, health news, childcare, sewing class for women, etc.