The Wai Yin Chinese Women Society is the largest Chinese community centre in Britain, providing community services for the Chinese population in Manchester regions.  We have more than 500 Chinese families registered as our members.  We provide services for the children’s group, youth group, women’s group, adult and elderly group, and Chinese with mental health problems.

We are a registered charity led by a volunteer Board of Trustees made up of Chinese women from across Greater Manchester.  We employ approximately 35 full-time and part-time staff across our projects with an additional 30+ sessional and contract based staff.  We also have over 35 active volunteers supporting all aspects of our work.

Our organisation is fortunate to have an extremely motivated and well-educated staff and volunteer work force and the organisation’s commitment to their development is recognised by our Investors in People Quality Mark.

Wai Yin has the expertise to offer culturally appropriate and bilingual services (including bilingual ICT facilities).  We are also able to provide crèche and dependent care support for those with care responsibilities.  This is critical in enabling many isolated Chinese women and unemployed Chinese adults with language barriers to access support, guidance, training and employment.

Whilst our services are targeted at the Chinese community, we welcome people of all communities to become our service users, volunteers and staff.