Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

ISLINGTON CHINESE ASSOCIATION 

A Centre of Excellence providing diverse services and activities to the Chinese and wider community of all age groups and background. Activities include social, recreational, educational, cultural, welfare and information as well as health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 29 years
(32 years as a company)

www.islingtonchinese.com

info@islingtonchinese.com

02072635986

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£339£322£17n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/22£261£246£14n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/21£141£146£-6n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/20£153£130£23n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£147£154£-7n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£144£161£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£159£136£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£96£95£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£136£121£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£151£135£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£170£165£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£173£159£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£185£205£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£157£166£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£226£173£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£170£140£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£245£203£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£237£203£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£247£195£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£212£203£9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£248,900
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£39,091
Cripplegate Foundation£19,007
Greater London Authority£18,951
DCMS£9,945
National Lottery Community Fund£9,720
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Realising Effective Hong Kong Community
£18,951 26/07/2023
This project aims to empower service users and develop their confidence in accessing mainstream services, e.g. AEB/ESOL classes, mental health; establish relationships/referral pathways to mainstream ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Hong Kong British National Overseas (HKBNOs) Welcome Programme
£39,091 21/07/2021
Resettlement funding for Hong Kong British nationals (overseas)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,945 30/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Islington Chinese Association
£248,900 08/07/2020
£248,900 over 5 years (£48,600; £48,200; £49,300; £50,600; £52,200) towards the cost of a Full-Time Well-Being Officer (35hpw) and associated project costs and overheads to work with older ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Islington Chinese Association
£19,007 14/05/2020
Provision of online services
National Lottery Community Fund - STAYING WELL-BALANCED
£9,720 03/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a series of cultural, art and health activities to people from the Chinese community. The project aims to bring people together and improve health and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Realising Effective Community
£176,365 06/09/2017
36
This project will deliver a range of activities to support new and existing Chinese people in the area to bring about positive social change, improve their quality of life and help them integrate. ....more
Sport England - Sports For All
£44,692 27/09/2013
Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Sports For All'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This funding has contributed ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Islington Chinese Association
£30,000 24/11/2011
the costs of the Information and Advice Service project for older Chinese people including the salary and NI costs of the Information and Advice Manager, telephone, publicity and travel costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-67
  • WYMAN WONG Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/11/1994, number: 1042435
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/11/1991, number: 02663906
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 4 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

21 HATCHARD ROAD
LONDON
N19 4NG

Objectives

ANY CHARITABLE OBJECT TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

Defined Area of Benefit:

ISLINGTON, GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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