INDO-CHINA REFUGEE GROUP CHINESE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Registered charity 1064620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEWISHAM INDO-CHINESE COMMUNITY CHINESE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Day Centre services, Mandarin teaching, and Day Nursery & After-School Club services

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR INDO-CHINESE IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE; TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND OT PROVIDE SOCIAL CARE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH LONDON, IN PARTICULAR INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES, FOR WHICH SUCH PERSONS HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faced significant financial constraints due to inflation and the cessation of core council funding for its Self-Help Project, necessitating the use of reserves to cover service costs. Despite these challenges, the charity maintained its operations across multiple projects, including a nursery rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, and reported total unrestricted reserves of £309,149 against total net assets of £5,152,061.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wensen Archer Corporate Services Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02701526

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SAM, Say-Phu — director, appointed 20/06/2021not on trustee list
• LIM, Benjamin Len-Nard — secretary, appointed 23/06/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Lewisham Indo-Chinese Community: Chinese Community School — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 01/12/2017.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (49% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MOI SONG HOchair
• BINH TUYET LAM
• Benjamin Len-Nard Lim · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cindy Kwek
• DUC PHUONG LUU
• Ha-Le Patel
• Hoa Hang
• Ke-Chuong Tran
• OI KHAN HOANG
• PANCY CHAW
• SAY PHU SAM
• TUYET MAI NGO

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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