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Chinese Church in London

Chinese Church in London is a registered charity (number 1107568) based in London, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Keith Kwok Wah Lau since 2024. Latest income £2.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Bahrain, United States, Albania, China and more
Website
www.ccil.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chinese Church in London
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.8m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1.1 TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AND TO TEACH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS SET FORTH IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO THE CHINESE IN AND AROUND LONDON.3.1.2 TO PROVIDE SPIRITUAL HOMES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS IN AND AROUND LONDON.3.1.3 TO CO-OPERATE WITH CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES WHO DOCTRINAL POSITION AGREES WITH OUT STATEMENT OF BELIEFS.3.1.4 TO FURTHER THE CAUSE OF CHRIST ON THE MISSION FIELD WORLDWIDE3.1.5 TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE USE OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN WORSHIP AND IN THE WORK OF THE CHURCH3.1.6 TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF CHINESE IN AND AROUND LONDON RECOGNISING THAT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST MINISTERS TO THE WHOLE PERSON.3.2 TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNTIED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE COUNCIL') MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

1.6y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 4Religious Activities 4Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 6Tech and media 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.1m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.5 in 2020

32 from 21 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1107568
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 NOVEMBER 2004 as amended on 21 Sep 2019
Companies House
Company number 05285135 · Active
Contact on the register
02076029092 · admin@ccil.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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