• Leeds Wah Kwong Chinese Association
• Leeds Chinese Women's Group
• Leeds Chinese Community School
• Leeds Chinese Mandarin Community School
• Leeds Chinese Students and Scholars Association
• Chinese Christian Church
• Yuk Ming Hin Operatic Society
• Leeds Chinese Social Group

This year, LCCA continues to facilitiate the elderly Chinese Luncheon Club which was run by the Leeds Chinese Women's Group in the Leeds Chinese Community Centre (LCCAC). These regular outings give our elders an opportunity to socialise and have thoroughly enjoyable afternoons. We hope that it will prevent social hisolation and promote their health and wellbeing. The LCCAC is also the focal point and an alternate base for the Leeds Chinese Community School and Yuk Ming Hin Chinese Operatic Society. They come here to practise singing, dancing and playing instruments. It is so important that we can continue to provide the community a base in which they can carry on with our much valued arts, culture and tradition, which we are all justly very proud of.

The LCCAC has also welcomed the visiting party headed by the President, Mr. Gary M. H. Li from the Confederation of Chinese Association U.K. this year. It is the aim of LCCA to work and communicate closely with other Chinese communities in this country and abroad to promote the welfare of the Chinese population.

Last summer, four of our eight membership organisations also received support from the Local Network Fund through LCCA to organise summer trips which benefited a large number of people, from the very young to the older generation. From their reports, they all had a lovely time and felt that these trips had enhanced their life experience.

With limited resources and support from Arts @ Leeds, we are organising a Chinese New Year Charity Dinner event to celebrate and to raise funds. This year, LCCA has not received any more direct funding from Leeds City Council apart from a one off emergency payment at the beginning of the year. It is due to the hard work and dedication of all the volunteers and membership organisations that LCCA continues to function and be albe to look forward to future plans. Therefore I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the peopel who have spent almost all of their spare time, and some of them also contributed financially to help LCCA in these difficult times.

LCCA will strive to further develop the use of the LCCAC to encourge more community involvement. We plan to organise more fund raising activities and will continue to work with the Chinese community, Leeds City Council and all interested parties towards a harmonious multi-cultural society. I hope that if we all work together, we will stride forward successfully for many years to come.

ALEX T. W. Kong

Chairman LCCA

主席报告

因为财政上的困难， 今年是利兹华人协会比较艰难的一年。然而，在大家共同探讨和努力之后，利兹华人协会成功地进行了管理改造，并成立了新的管理委员会。2006年5月16日，在本会会所-利兹华人社区中心，我们修订了利兹华人协会宪章及其有关公司文件。

利兹华人协会现包括8个华人社团组织：

• 利兹华光社
• 利兹华人妇女会
• 利兹中文学校
• 利兹普通话中文学校
• 利兹中国学生学者联谊会
• 利兹华人基督教会
• 利兹钰鸣轩曲艺社
• 利兹华人社区活动中心

今年，利兹华人协会继续提供场地给李子妇女会在华人社区中心举办华人老年人午餐会。这些午餐会让老年人下午有规律的外出，社交和娱乐。我们希望这样可以减轻老年人的社会孤独感，并且有利于他们的身心健康。此外，华人社区中心也是利兹中文学校和钰鸣轩曲艺社的活动基地。他们在这里练习声乐，舞蹈和乐器。对于社区中心来说，很重要的一项功能就是提供基地来延续这些被华人珍视并引以为豪的传统，文化和艺术。

利兹华人协会也接待了以李文興先生为主席的英国华人社团联合总会访问团。华人协会的目的是促进和联络其他在英及海外的华人社团来提高华人的抗类福利事业及其待遇。

去年夏天，华人协会邀请和资助了其中的四个社团参加了夏季旅游。参与人数众多，无论老少都读过了一段非常愉快的时光，增加了人生体验。

此外在利兹艺术协会的部分资助下，我们将组织中国新年慈善晚会来庆祝中国新年并筹募本会经费。今年，除了年初政府的一笔紧急支出之外，利兹市政厅不再提供华人协会任何资助。因此，协会的志愿者和组织者辛勤工作和奉献使协会能继续运作并发展。在此，让我向那些贡献了几乎所有业余时间的志愿者们表示感谢。除了时间之外，他们有些人甚至奉献钱财来帮助华人协会度过这段艰难的时光。

利兹华人协会会继续利用华人社区中心来促进更多的社区活动。我们准备筹集更多的资金来举办活动，并且会与华人社区，利兹市政厅以及一切相关团体展开多方多文化的交流与合作。最后，我希望我们能团结合作，让利兹华人协会发展壮大。

江德永

利兹华人协会主席