COLCHESTER CHINESE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1173523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the charity is to provide and assist in the provision of facilities for the education, recreation and other leisure-time occupation of the inhabitants of Colchester and the surrounding areas, in particular but not exclusively members of the Chinese community.

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE EDUCATION, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF COLCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN CHINESE LANGUAGE, HERITAGE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS, INCLUDING THROUGH WORKSHOPS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES.

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: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £8,483 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £19,370. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 18/05/2024, 79 days after the 29/02/2024 due date); year ending 30/04/2022 (received 31/05/2023, 92 days after the 28/02/2023 due date); year ending 30/04/2021 (received 31/05/2023, 457 days after the 28/02/2022 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

• Peter Cheng MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• SZE CHOI CHOI
• WING FAI CHEUNG

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COLCHESTER CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

• THE COLCHESTER CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £54k
• ISLINGTON CHINESE ASSOCIATION income £305k
• CHINESE COMMUNITY WELLBEING SOCIETY income £192k
• CAMBRIDGE CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £171k
• CHINESE IN WALES ASSOCIATION income £492k
• CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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