THE MOTHERS' BRIDGE OF LOVE

Registered charity 1105543 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q105622390 · also known as THE MOTHERBRIDGE

The charity provides financial support for the relief of hardship, and the advancement of education, in China, and also provides information and advice to promote Chinese culture amongst families that have adopted Chinese children.

Objects

1. RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANSTHE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR SERVICES OR FACILITIES FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK OR POOR LIVING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES.2. ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINATO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ETHNIC CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTED BY FAMILIES OUTSIDE THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES OR TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH EDUCATION.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHINESE NATIONAL IN THE SUBJECT OF WESTERN CULTURE BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR SUCH EDUCATION 3. COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDINGTO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RURAL COMMUNITIES OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ITS RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES; AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE LIFE OF THEIR COMMUNITY IN WAYS WHICH ADDRESS AND ALLEVIATE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.

Area of benefit: PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a yearly plan and operational report for the 2024 financial year, containing no financial statements, income figures, or expenditure data. Consequently, it is not possible to assess the charity's financial health, reserves, or audit status from this text alone.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

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 05/04/2023 (received 02/04/2024, 57 days after the 05/02/2024 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

• Dr Zhihao Chen
• Fan Wu
• Ruiyun HE
• Xinran Xue
• Zhu Li

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

Operates in: China · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CAMBRIDGE CHINA DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• THE CAMBRIDGE CHINA DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £416k
• BRIDGE OF HOPE FOUNDATION income £45k
• MIGRANT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION income £43k
• THE YEN MING DEH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £53k
• CHINESE COMMUNITY WELLBEING SOCIETY income £192k
• CHINESE INFORMATION AND ADVICE CENTRE income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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