THE CAMBRIDGE CHINA DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1111605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity supports education and research in the field of economics, business studies, systems of governance and the development of leadership, managerial and business skills. The charity's principal activity is the annual China Executive Leadership Programme which brings together the leaders of Chinese business and the chief executive officers of global companies.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR ANY BRANCHES OR ASPECTS OF EDUCATION LIKELY TO BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF EITHER BRITISH SUBJECTS ON THE ONE HAND OR CITIZENS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON THE OTHER, OR BOTH, IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS STUDIES, SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS, AND IN PARTICULAR BY(A) PUTTING ON COURSES SEMINARS TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND LECTURES AT CAMBRIDGE AND ELSEWHERE(B) THE PROVISION OF VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND SECONDMENTS FOR STUDY AT CAMBRIDGE, ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Area of benefit: CHINA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM

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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Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORD BROERSchair
• DOUGLAS FLINT
• Dr ANIL SEAL · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr SIMON DEAKIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MUHTAR KENT
• NICK BUTLER
• PROFESSOR KJELD ERIK BRODSGAARD
• PROFESSOR MICHAEL LANDESMANN
• PROFESSOR R B HEAP
• Patrizio BIANCHI
• Professor Peter Hugh Nolan
• Professor Simon REDFERN
• RAYMOND PING LUEN KWOK JP
• ROBERT WILKINSON
• SIMON DAVIES
• SIMON HENRY
• SIR JOHN PARKER FREng
• SIR MARK MOODY-STUART
• Vuk JEREMIC

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · China

Income and spending

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