LEEDS CHINESE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Registered charity 516097 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS AND DISTRICT CHINESE COMMUNITY WORD UNDERSTANDING CLASS

Provides out-of-school-hours activities for school age children, e.g. Chinese Language lessons (both Mandarin and Cantonese), Chinese Dance, Calligraphy, Crafts, etc, in Leeds and Districts. We also provide Chinese language lessons for adults and promote Chinese culture amongst local community.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN THE CULTURE, TRADITIONS AND LANGUAGE OF CHINA AMONGST THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR CHINESE ADULTS AND CHILDREN RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF WEST YORKSHIRE. (B) THE ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND TEACHING OFTHE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR CHINESE ADULTS AND CHILDREN RESIDENT IN THE SAID AREA. (C) TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958. (D) TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF WEST YORKSHIRE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net payment deficit of £8,527 for the year ended 31 August 2025. However, free reserves stood at £154,571, which the trustees note is within their stated policy range of approximately £76,000 to £153,000 based on anticipated annual expenditure.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kayan Tsangchair
• Chi Kin Chow
• Danlu Liu
• Dr Yue Huang
• Fiona Fung Ping Kit
• Jin Zhang
• Lai Man Yeung
• Lisa Cui Hua Cheng
• Lucinda Pang
• Mei Yan Fanny Kwong

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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