About us

Brick Lane Circle

This is a voluntary organisation (company limited by guarantee) set up to help transform the intellectual landscape of the Bangladeshi community in the UK and take it to a new level of confidence and critical engagement with everything relevant for the community's speedy progress and development.  It will achieve this through developing and facilitating better connections between people who are engaged in research and intellectual pursuits involving Bangladesh or Bangladeshis abroad; encouraging more people to engage in developing objective knowledge and creating opportunities for debates and intellectual exchanges. 

One important element necessary for making breakthroughs and solving long standing problems in the community is to bring people from different backgrounds and political divides to talk to each other, discuss rival perspectives and debate over different narratives and ideas.  This process will enable more people to develop a better and deeper understanding of problems and issues faced by Bangladesh and Bangladeshis abroad, which in turn will result in the development of better quality solutions.

Aims and objectives

Organise seminars, exhibitions, events and activities in the UK to encourage and facilitate research and knowledge generation / dissemination with respect to Bangladesh and Bangladeshis abroad

Consider, learn lessons and explore the potentials of the long historical links between Bangladesh and Britain

Explore and develop innovative ways of promoting better understanding between the UK Bangladeshi community and the wider diverse multi-faith / multi-cultural communities in Britain

Encourage and facilitate better connections between Bangladesh and the UK with respect to education, economics, social, cultural and tourism

Engage young people in the UK from diverse backgrounds and generate interest among them to learn more about Bangladesh and Bangladeshis abroad and undertake innovative and exciting projects / activities for mutual benefits

Help develop deeper and shared common roots among the UK’s diverse population through research, knowledge sharing and learning about each other’s history, country of origin and experiences in the UK.

Contact

You can contact Brick Lane Circle by

email:      bricklanecircle@yahoo.co.uk 

phone:     +447574224891

Lookman Ahmed - Chair

Muhammad Ahmedullah - Secretary

Shamsuzzaman Chowdhury - Treasurer