CHINESE IN WALES ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1175444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHINESE IN WALES, CIWA

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in Wales who are socially excluded on the grounds of their ethnic origin, age, disability, ill health, poverty and other personal circumstances, in particular members of the Chinese community, to relieve the needs of such people and assist them to integrate into society.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN WALES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, AGE, DISABILITY, ILL HEALTH, POVERTY AND OTHER PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY:A) PROMOTING COMMUNITY COHESION, BOTH WITHIN THE ETHNIC CHINESE COMMUNITY AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY;B) DELIVERING TO AND REPRESENTING THE CHINESE COMMUNITY INCLUDING DISABLED PEOPLE, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AS ELDERLY PEOPLE, IN PLANNING AND SERVICE DELIVERY TO ENSURE THEIR WIDER WELL-BEING;C) SUPPORTING MEMBERS OF THE ETHNIC CHINESE COMMUNITY FACING DISADVANTAGE TO ADDRESS THE INEQUALITIES THAT THEY FACE AND PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY;D) PROMOTING BOTH CHINESE AND WELSH CULTURES AND HERITAGE;E) HAVING DUE REGARD TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE EQUALITY ACT.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 March 2025 was £553,335, resulting in a net surplus of £25,062. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £104,898, which the trustees describe as a prudent buffer to ensure continuity of essential operations.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Yan Wuchair
• Dr CHING-YI CHEN
• Jennifer Ken Yan Lam
• Oiling Wong
• Professor Uzo Iwobi CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Xianghua Xie

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROMANIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN HUB.

• THE ROMANIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN HUB income £264k
• CONGOLESE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT income £176k
• CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE - BIRMINGHAM income £207k
• CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON income £2.2m
• CHINESE CHURCH SUPPORT MINISTRIES income £177k
• SHEFFIELD CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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