NORTH EAST CHINESE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1047452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N E C A

-Culture training & events - Teach Mandarin, interpretation services for authorities such as police, MSPCC, Age Concern - help to promote community & Chinatown. - Provide advocacy/ advice/ information to those whose english is not their first language/ elderly/ old people children/ young people.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 2. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION. 3. TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH. 4. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. 5. TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISRIMINATION. 6. OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £2,452 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total receipts of £33,472 against payments of £31,020. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £12,617 and freehold property valued at £50,000. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention regarding the accuracy of the accounts or compliance with the Charities Act 2011.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/10/2024, 250 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jimmy Hin Chor Tsangchair
• Amy Ngor Mee Li
• Hoo Tak Ng
• KAM WAH MAK
• Kam Yiu Chan
• Long Lin Ly

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gateshead · Middlesbrough · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with East & Southeast Asian Community Centre.

• East & Southeast Asian Community Centre income £949k
• MANCHESTER CHINESE CENTRE income £194k
• NEWCASTLE CHINESE SCHOOL income £47k
• CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £293k
• CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF WOKING income £71k
• OVERSEAS CHINESE ASSOCIATION (SOUTH WEST REGION) income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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