How You Can Help

• Donations

CIAC is a registered charity receiving virtually all of its funding from grants awarded by established donor organisations. Such funding is restricted to covering the expenditure related to the services we provide, which leaves little available for investment in other areas despite our fundraising efforts and activities. We are currently in need of funding to pay for the purchase of office equipment such as computers and printers, as well as other capital items for the general running of the office and are therefore very grateful for donations of any kind and amount to improve our services to those in need.

If you wish to make a donation, please contact the Chief Executive on 08453 131 868 or email him at ceo@ciac.co.uk; or simply send a cheque payable to ‘Chinese Information and Advice Centre (CIAC) ’ to the following address:

Chief Executive Officer
Chinese Information and Advice Centre (CIAC) 
Lower Ground Floor, 
London Chinatown Market ,
71-73 Charing Cross Road, 
London WC2H 0NE

You can also donate through SMS or paypal

(a) Donation through SMS

- Text ‘CIAC18 £10’ to 70070 to donate to Chinese Information And Advice Centre and make a difference today. 

JustTextGiving by Vodafone

Donations can be made in denominations of £1/£2/£3/£4/£5/£10.

(b) Donation through paypal

- Our paypal email is info@ciac.co.uk

• Volunteering

CIAC receives invaluable assistance from an ever-expanding group of dedicated volunteers. As well as women who receive special training to become women's support volunteers, a number of individuals help with translation, design of our publications and IT technical support. Others supply legal, financial and business expertise.

If you would like to join us and have the satisfaction of giving whatever you can to the Chinese community, we would dearly like to hear from you.You can

1) Letter

Please write to us to the address above and include your CV (if possible), tell us what kind of work you are interested

2) Email

Send your CV to ceo@ciac.co.uk

3) Online application

http://www.ciac.co.uk/content/volunteer-application-form

We reimburse our volunteers' travel expenses and a reasonable sum for lunch.

• Send us your mobile phone or printer cartridge

Chinese Information and Advice Center (CIAC) works with Recycle4Charity to recycle any old, faulty or unused mobile phones or printer cartridges. 

mobiles donated are reconditioned and sold to developing countries to help their communications infrastructure. Mobile phones that cannot be reconditioned are recycled and disposed properly.

Each recycled mobiles are reconditioned and sold to developing countries to help their communications infrastructure. Mobile phones that cannot be reconditioned are recycled and disposed properly. Also, It generates income for CIAC to give free legal advice or projects in supporting the disadvantaged Chinese living in the UK. To donate, please leave the goods to CIAC or post it to the following freepost address 

Recycle4Charity (Ref: C19975 CIAC)
Freepost, SEA 14098, Lewes, BN8 5BR

• Cheap long distance call service offered by CIAC and Call15

CIAC, & Three UK work together to offer the Chinese community a cheap long distance call package.

Calls to China only at 2p per minute. No contract, no hidden fee. You will be billed per second for the call.

While you enjoy the cheap price you pay on the long distance calls, call15 will donate part of the revenue to CIAC. Click here for more information about the long distance call service.

• Shop online and help CIAC raises funds

You can also help  to contribute towards the CIAC by shopping through our web shop: www.spendandraise.com/chineseinformationandadvicecentre. If you love shopping from stores such as Marks & Spencer, HMV and Waterstones, please help support us. Your purchases will help count towards our fundraising efforts. Please help us and make your shopping count!