VISION FOR CHINA

Registered charity 1112500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VFC

Advancement of Christian faith, education, relief of poverty, healthcare & orphaned child care

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN CHINA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF FAITH SET OUT IN THE APPENDIX.(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ALL ITS FIELDS INCLUDING SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING AND TEACHING IN CHINA AND BY PROMOTING AND ARRANGING STUDY AND RESEARCH OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND ANY OF ITS MINORITY LANGUAGES INCLUDING FACILITATING LANGUAGE TRANSLATION.(C) TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED IN PARTICULAR THOSE EXPERIENCING POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISEASE INCLUDING THOSE WITH ADDICTIVE DRUG CONDITIONS AND OTHER DISORDERS .(D) TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO THE PEOPLE OF CHINA.(E) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE CARE, NURTURE AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ORPHANED AND ABANDONED CHILDREN IN CHINA.(F) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF CHINA AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: 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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of £29,667 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £178,231 to £148,564. The trustees note that reserves held in the UK remain higher than usual due to delays in transferring funds to projects in China, despite a general policy to pass on gifts as soon as possible. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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 5 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/10/2023 (received 26/11/2024, 87 days after the 31/08/2024 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN MARY LAKERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Anthony Newbery · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Christine Sansom · trustee of 2 other charities
• LEE ANTON CHEUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
• LESLEY COBILL
• LYNDA MARGARET CHEUNG
• TIM WIFFEN

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

Operates in: China

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• David Anthony Newbery — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF NEWDIGATE

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON.

• CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON income £2.2m
• VISION CHURCH LTD income £130k
• VISION FOR ASIA income £74k
• VISION FOR LIFE TRUST income £72k
• NOTTINGHAM CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £91k
• LONDON JESUS VISION CHURCH CHARITY income £112k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.