WISDOM (ZHIHUI) FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1162663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCS, BOURNEMOUTH CHINESE SCHOOL

Wisdom Foundation encourage connections in the Globe through experience and learning, create Harmony by understanding differences - ages, cultures, environments...etc. We supports cultural and language learning via Bournemouth Chinese School to Bournemouth local. Our Penbuddies project links and trains children around the world from privileged background to supported background (orphanages).

Objects

A) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATIONAND LEISURE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CULTURAL AWARENESS AND IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OFLIFE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN BOURNEMOUTH, POOLE, DORSET ANDTHE SURROUNDING AREAB) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH MAY BE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND ANDWALES.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Spelthorne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Received the assets of BOURNEMOUTH CHINESE SCHOOL (charity 1087750) — merger registered 11/01/2016.
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Latest income
£4k
Latest spending
£6k
Registered
2015

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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.

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £37,151 — grants £37,151 (1); 92% of the £40,165 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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 31/08/2023 (received 08/09/2024, 70 days after the 30/06/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Kent · Poole · Surrey · Throughout London · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£4k£6k
31/08/2024£4k£4k
31/08/2023£40k£40k
31/08/2022£40k£40k
31/08/2021£2k£901

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund15/09/2016£5kLunar New Year Multi-Cultural Celebration & Workshops
The National Lottery Community Fund16/04/2007£590Reaching Out
The National Lottery Community Fund06/01/2005£5kmusic & dance tutition
The National Lottery Heritage Fund01/07/2002£4k"This Group Will Produce A Prospectus And Provide Training In Health And Safety For Teachers And Volunteers."