READING CHINESE SCHOOL

Charity number: 1163869
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

The Reading Chinese School was established in 1978. The school's aim is to provide education in both Chinese language and culture for children and adults of all ages and backgrounds. The school offer the Chinese classes for children of 3 years old to adults on Sundays during the school term time. The school also have extra-curriculum classes such as public speech, drama and recital and dances

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 August 2024

Total income: £77,713
Total expenditure: £77,237

People

5 Trustee(s)

35 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Education/training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Overseas Aid/famine Relief
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
  • Economic/community Development/employment
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
  • Recreation
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
  • Reading

Governance

Registration history:
  • 07 October 2015: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

5 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Dr YAN LIU Chair 09 June 2015
None on record
Steve P Haynes Trustee 03 June 2018
None on record
DR KAR ANN CHEW Trustee 04 October 2015
None on record
ERIKA WONG Trustee 09 June 2015
None on record
POHSIEW TAN BSC Trustee 09 June 2015
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/08/2020 31/08/2021 31/08/2022 31/08/2023 31/08/2024
Total gross income £77.70k £50.57k £67.61k £61.71k £77.71k
Total expenditure £66.86k £41.07k £58.55k £71.37k £77.24k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 August 2024 26 June 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2024 26 June 2025 On time
Annual return 31 August 2023 02 July 2024 2 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2023 02 July 2024 2 days late
Annual return 31 August 2022 12 July 2023 12 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2022 12 July 2023 12 days late
Annual return 31 August 2021 27 June 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2021 27 June 2022 On time
Annual return 31 August 2020 21 June 2021 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2020 21 June 2021 On time
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15/06/2014 AS AMENDED ON 04/10/2015

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CHINESE CULTURE IN THE BOROUGH OF READING AND ITS NEIGHBOURING AREAS AND BEYOND.

Contact information

Address:
75 HURST RISE ROAD
OXFORD
OX2 9HF
Phone:
01865861594
Email:
readingchineseschool@hotmail.com
Website:

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