About Us
About Us
About Us Today, the Chembur Club is a well-known entity in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane. Known for its social, cultural and religious activities, the Club initiated its journey decades back and this year completes sixty years of its existence. In the beginning, it hardly possessed any material resources except the boundless zeal and enthusiasm of a handful of founder members to fulfil a dream. The dream was to form an organisation to serve as a platform to carry-out socio-cultural and religious activities for the local community. To give shape to this cherished dream, on August 18, 1963, seventeen founder members constituted a Preparatory Committee. During the 1st meeting held on September 22, 1963, the name of Chembur Club was adopted under which the cherished activities would be carried out.
On November 13, 1963 the Chembur Club was registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860). Following this, the Club carried-out a number of fund-raising drives to purchase a piece of land and to construct a building along with a temple complex. Finally, with the relentless efforts by the founder members and the cooperation of the local community, a five-storied Club premises with a temple complex in the ground-floor was constructed in 2002. Presently, all the major activities of the Club are carried out in this building.
Chembur Club provides accommodation to cancer patients travelling to Mumbai from different parts of the country for treatment in city hospitals. It provides grants to support medical expenses for needy patients. The Club also provides educational assistance grants for supporting educational expenses of under-privileged but meritorious candidates. We also assist the patients with free meals twice in a week.
Chembur club has aspired to enhance the Socio-cultural activities and avidly promotes them through organising different activities like, dance classes, yoga classes, spiritual lectures, sports, art classes in its premises. Serving as a platform to cultivate and promote Bengali traditions and culture, Chembur Club organises, theatre programs, art and song programs and Bengali language teaching classes in its premises. The Club has also set up a Bengali library which is run from the club premises.
Our Mission
Our mission is to promote social and cultural awareness, understanding, and appreciation among diverse communities. We strive to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where people can share their unique experiences, values, and traditions. Through our programs, events, and initiatives, we aim to foster cross-cultural communication and collaboration, celebrate diversity, and promote social justice and equity. We believe that by working together, we can build a stronger, more vibrant, and more united community.
Our Objectives
- To provide lodging facilities for out-station patients visiting the city for the treatment of cancer.
- To undertake various social welfare initiatives to provide financial, material, or any other support to underprivileged people irrespective of gender, social class, caste, or religion.
- Medical assistance in the form of grants to under-privileged people
- Educational assistance to under-privileged and meritorious students
- To organize social, religious, cultural, and other activities for the Club members and local community for promoting socio-cultural, religious, physical, and psycho-social well-being.
- To share Bengali socio-cultural identity with the local cosmopolitan community for creating a greater socio-cultural confluence.
- To provide space, ambiance, and facilities to the local community for worshipping Goddess Kali to get divine blessings of the Mother Goddess for peace, prosperity health, and happiness.
- To offer facilities in the temple complex for carrying out various religious rites, rituals, and festivals to fulfill the spiritual and religious needs of the members of the Club and the local community.
