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Community Associations
Resources Community links, in particular to Chinese Community Associations around the country.

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  Link   An Viet Foundation
12-14 Englefield Road
London N1 4LS
tel: 020 7275 7780
email: [email protected]
Centre for the Vietnamese community, including refugees and asylum seekers. Advice on benefits, housing, immigration, business, careers and training. Their drugs project provides counselling, advocacy and advice. Interpreting and translation service. Vietnamese language and ESOL classes. Drop in club for older people. Cultural and social events.
  Link   Camden Chinese Community Centre
9 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9SN
Tel: 020 7388 8883
Fax: 020 7383 2886
E-mail: [email protected]

Camden Chinese Community Centre strives to raise the quality of life of its users through the delivery of Services and Educational activities in partnership with other organizations.
  Link   Carrie Gaye
I work with students, for whom English is a second language, in a secondary school in Paignton. (South West Devon.) We have a small number of students who are Chinese, with Cantonese as a first language. I would like to start a community group to enable members of the local Chinese community to socialise occasionally at our school. I feel this would benefit those young students (and adults) who are feeling isolated.
Please contact me on [email protected]
  Link   China Britain Business Association
China - Britain Business Association (CBBA - ñ-FO) is a non-profitable organization of business and professional men and women who have joined together for the purpose of promoting trade and business in general between China and Great Britain.

  Link   Chinese Association of Tower Hamlets
Sailors Place
680 Commercial Road
London E14 7HA
tel: 020 7515 5598
email: [email protected]
Advice, counselling, drop in and telephone interpreting services for Chinese and Vietnamese people.
  Link   Chinese History in Birmingham
Web pages devoted to the history and development of the Chinese community in Brimingham.
  Link   Derbyshire Chinese Welfare Association
110-122 Abbey Street
Derby DE22 3SQ
tel/fax: 01332 342 436
Community centre offering advice, information and support around the welfare, educational, social and cultural needs of the local Chinese community. Offers guidance on education and training, employment, benefits and health. Runs a Chinese elders group and a Chinese Sunday school.
  Link   ESEA-UoL Online International Alumni Society
ESEA-UoL is the first University of Liverpool Online International Masters students and graduates association. The Alumni Society provides benefits to the University students and graduates who are residing or claimed to have their ethinic origin from the ESEA Region - Far East & South East Asian including Indochina.
  Link   Hackney Chinese Community Centre
28-32 Ellingfort Road
London E8 3PA
tel: 020 8986 6171
fax: 020 8533 5066
email: [email protected]
A community centre for different sectors of the Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
  Link   Kut-O Chinese Association
340 High Street
Chatham
Kent ME4 4NR
tel: 01634 841 026
The Kut-O Chinese Association is a non-profit making organisation, set up in 1983 by a group of UK residents from the island of Kut-O in the New Territories of Hong Kong. They provide information and assistance to the Chinese community within the Kent area and run a Chinese school and social functions for the community.
  Link   Lambeth Chinese Community Association
69 Stockwell Road
London SW9 9PY
tel: 020 7733 4377
fax: 020 7733 5045
email: [email protected]
Aims to assist non-English speaking Chinese clients to have better access to mainstream facilities.
  Link   Leeds Chinese Community Association
84-86 North Street
Leeds LS2 7PN
tel/fax: 0113 234 6019
email: [email protected]
Community centre offering drop-in advice, health advice, information and advocacy service. Lunch club for older people, Mandarin classes, ESOL and other classes available.
  Link   London Chinese Community Network
Ground Floor
Boardman House
64 Broadway
Stratford
London E15 1NG
tel: 020 8432 0683/0684
fax: 020 8432 0685
email: [email protected]
  Link   Midlands Vietnamese Community Association
8 Charleville Road
Handsworth
Birmingham B19 1DA
tel: 0121 554 9685
Advice, information and support for the Vietnamese community. Provided advice and assistance with benefits, employment, education and training. English language classes available.
  Link   Nottinghamshire Vietnamese Community Project
30 Wiverton Road
Sherwood Rise
Nottingham NG7 6NP
tel: 0115 969 1289
fax: 0115 969 1288
Advice, social and education centre for Vietnamese refugees. Advice on welfare rights, housing and homelessness, immigration and nationality issues and domestic violence. Mother tongue classes, lunch club and play schemes. Health project addressing primary health care needs. Various social and cultural needs. Translation and interpreting service for other agencies, for which there are charges.
  Link   Portsmouth Vietnamese Association
Friendship House
Elm Grove
Southsea
Portsmouth PO5 1JT
tel: 0239 275 5727
Provides advice and social activities for the Vietnamese community. Elders group, music and sports groups for young people, mothers and toddlers group. Vietnamese language classes.
  Link   Southwark Vietnamese Chinese Refugee Community
Thomas Calton Centre
Alpha Street
London SE15 4NX
tel: 020 7635 0022
fax: 020 7277 9040
Advice for the Vietnamese Chinese community, particularly refugees and asylum seekers, including benefits, housing and homelessness, immigration and nationality. Culturally sensitive counselling and language support available. A day centre for older people is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm, with lunch and activities. Mother tongue classes for children aged 5 to 16 years old. Group work for women, older people and unemployed people.
  Link   Swansea Chinese Community Co-op Centre
2nd Floor
37-38 The Kingsway
Swansea SA1 5LF
tel: 01792 469 919
fax: 01792 241 792
email: [email protected]
Services for members of the Chinese community. Advice and information on a range of issues, including racial harassment and local services. Training and recreational and social activities.
  Link   The Pagoda Chinese Community Centre
Henry Street
Liverpool L1 5BU
tel: 0151 233 8833
fax: 0151 233 8839
email: [email protected]
Community centre for Chinese people. Services include advice on benefits, legal matters, housing, education, employment and training, immigration and nationality. Also available are health care surgeries, health link interpreting services and a Chinese Carers Network with respite care. Activities include language and recreational classes and a lunch club for elderly Chinese.
  Link   Tung Sing Housing Association Ltd
  Link   Vietnamese Community Association in SW London
44 Church Road
Teddington
Middlesex
London TW11 8PB
tel: 020 8943 4842
Provides advice, information and support in accessing services. Befriending, outreach and translation services also available.