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24 March 2020

The Community Chest Allocates HK$10.8 million Donations from HKSARG Governing Team

to 54 Member Agencies to Cope with Impact of Coronavirus

As the coronavirus outbreak is hitting Hong Kong’s economy and society hard, a special donation of HK$10.8 million was made to the Community Chest in early March by the HKSARG Governing Team led by Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam to support non-government subvented social welfare member agencies to combat the difficult times.

With its usual professionalism in allocating resources for the benefit of the community, the Chest conducted a speedy assessment on the impact of the epidemic on the operations of eligible member agencies. On or before 27 March, this special donation, without any deduction of administrative expenses, will be dispatched to 54 member agencies (please refer to the attachment). Services under support include “Children & Youth Services”, “Elderly Services”, “Family & Child Welfare Services”, “Medical & Health Services”, “Rehabilitation & Aftercare Services”, and “Community Development & Other Services”.

The Chest is grateful to the Chief Executive of the HKSAR and all politically appointed officials for their generosity who have also declined the issuance of any donation receipts for tax deduction purpose.

For more than 50 years, donations to the Chest from individuals and corporate donors are allocated in full to social welfare services to help the needy in Hong Kong.

Attachment:

List of Beneficiary Members Agencies
1	1st Step Association Limited
2	Adventure Ship Limited
3	Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women
4	Benji's Centre Limited
5	Care For Your Heart
6	Centre for Restoration of Human Relationships Limited
7	Chain of Charity Movement
8	Changing Young Lives Foundation
9	Children Chiropractic Foundation Limited
10	Christian Action
11	Christian Oi Hip Fellowship Limited
12	Comfort Care Concern Group, The
13	Community CareAge Foundation Limited
14	Community Drug Advisory Council
15	Direction Association for the Handicapped
16	Evangelize China Fellowship Shatin Canaan Church Limited
17	Feeding Hong Kong Limited
18	Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease Association
19	Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, The
20	Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation Limited
21	Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association Limited
22	Hong Kong Employment Development Service Limited
23	Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres Limited
24	Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association Limited
25	Hong Kong Joint Council of Parents of the Mentally Handicapped, The
26	Hong Kong Neuro-Muscular Disease Association Limited
27	Hong Kong Seeing Eye Dog Services Limited
28	Hong Kong Single Parents Association
29	Hong Kong Stoma Association Limited
30	Hong Kong Wheelchair Aid Service Limited
31	Hong Kong Workers' Health Centre Limited
32	Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship Limited, The
33	KELY Support Group Limited
34	New Voice Club of Hong Kong, The
35	North Point Kai-fong Welfare Advancement Association, The
36	Pathways Foundation Limited, The
37	Pentecostal Holiness Church Ling Kwong Bradbury Centre for the Blind
38	Playright Children's Play Association
39	Pneumoconiosis Mutual Aid Association
40	Project Concern Hong Kong
41	RainLily
42	Regeneration Society Limited
43	Rehabaid Society
44	Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kong
45	Resource The Counselling Centre Limited
46	Samaritans, The
47	Silence Limited
48	Society for AIDS Care Limited, The
49	South Kwai Chung Social Service
50	Street Sleepers Shelter Society Trustees Incorporated
51	Suicide Prevention Services Limited
52	TREATS
53	Wu Oi Christian Centre
54	Youth Diabetes Action

About The Community Chest of Hong Kong

The Community Chest of Hong Kong was established in 1968 as an independent, non-profit making organisation neither funded nor operated by the Government. The Chest has been serving Hong Kong for over 50 years. Each year, the Chest organises fund-raising events for over 160 social welfare member agencies to provide services to more than 2.5 million beneficiaries in Hong Kong in six major areas of services: children & youth, elderly, family & child welfare, medical & health, rehabilitation & aftercare, and community development. The Chest’s administration expenses come from a subsidised grant from our partner-in-charity, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, in addition to income from investments. This allows the Chest to allocate 100% of funds raised to charitable use; this operations model makes the Chest unique among its peers, and helps fulfil its mission to act as trustee of the donors. For more information, please visit our website www.commchest.org.

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