Crowdfunding Campaign Meets its Target
China Exchange has secured £22,776 in pledges through its crowdfunding campaign to Champion London Chinatown’s Heritage. The campaign was backed by 147 supporters, including Shaftesbury PLC and Westminster City Council. These funds will be used for projects this year to collect, record and celebrate heritage in London’s Chinatown. Over the next few months China Exchange […]
Project volunteering opportunities now open!
High quality training and rewarding experiences available in China Exchange 2021 volunteer projects – sign up before 30 April!
China Exchange to receive support in second round of Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
China Exchange has received a grant of £81,271 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen.
Odella Yue Confirmed for Chinatown Residency
New artist in residence confirmed to explore a creative response to the impact of COVID-19 racism on London’s Chinatown
Launching the Champion London Chinatown’s Heritage Campaign
China Exchange has launched a new crowdfunding campaign – the Chinatown-based charity’s most ambitious effort yet to create lasting and positive change in London’s Chinatown. The campaign needs to secure £21,320 in pledges by 11 May to deliver projects that protect and celebrate unrecorded East and South East Asian heritage in Chinatown. The funds raised […]
Artist in Residence: Made in Chinatown – A Creative Response to the Impact of COVID-19 Racism on Chinatown
China Exchange is delighted to announce an open call for one artist to join our Made in Chinatown project with a focus on the impact of covid-19 racism on London’s Chinatown through art.
WCMT funds new work at China Exchange on COVID-19 racism
China Exchange has been awarded a COVID-19 action grant from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT). The project will facilitate discussion about the impact of pandemic-linked racism on Chinatown, and provide a counter-narrative to racist sentiment and prejudice that is harming the communities that use this area. Throughout 2020, anti-Chinese sentiment has grown in the […]
Reflections on 2020 from China Exchange
China Exchange started 2020 with an injection of positivity. Four hundred people came to enjoy our Chinese New Year celebrations with Mothers Bridge of Love. Over 100 people joined our community-led walking tours in the first two months of the year. The cold weather couldn’t stop us from sharing the history of our special neighbourhood. […]
China Exchange’s Xiao Ma awarded prestigious PhD scholarship
Our Cultural Projects Manager and Researcher, Xiao Ma, has been awarded a prestigious PhD scholarship at University of Westminster. Xiao has begun her PhD project to research the cultural complexities of London’s Chinatown through critically examining the notion and practice of Chinatown heritage in global London. She fought stiff competition to be awarded a scholarship […]
Heritage restaurant Tao Tao Ju provides ‘sum’ support to China Exchange through Steam At Home kits
Chinatown institution Tao Tao Ju is to launch Steam at Home kits in December allowing people across the UK to enjoy specialist hand crafted dim sum . Proceeds from each order will be donated to China Exchange so you get to eat well and do good with every order! We are so grateful to our friends and neighbours at Tao Tao Ju […]