The 36th Annual General Meeting of the Cherrybrook Chinese Community Association was successfully completed

The 36th Annual General Meeting of the Cherrybrook Chinese Community Association was held on Wednesday 20th August 2025

President Kwok Chau started the meeting by giving a welcoming speech and a brief summary of past year’s activities and progress.

He also mentioned that he would not seek nomination as President for next term as there’s a limit of five years as specified in the constitution.

Next Jenny Chu presented the financial report.

It was then followed by the adaptation of the Minutes of the 35th Annual General Meeting and the 2024-2025 Financial Report.

At the meeting, executive members of the association from 2025-2026 were elected and the positions were elected by the new members. The result is as follows:

2025 全球华文全球朗诵比赛澳大利亚分赛区总决赛（樱桃小溪承办赛）

2025年6月28日（星期六）上午，第八届全球华文朗诵大赛澳大利亚分赛区总决赛于樱桃小溪华人协会中文学校（Cherrybrook Chinese Language School）圆满落幕。本次赛事由我校成功承办，这也是我校继往届之后，第二次荣膺此项澳大利亚国家级华语朗诵盛事的承办重任。
全校共有103名学子积极报名参赛。选手们在总决赛的舞台上自信发声，以饱满的情感诠释经典篇章，充分展现了华文语言的韵律之美与深厚文化底蕴。他们的精彩表现赢得了评委与观众的一致赞誉。
谨向所有在本次大赛中取得优异成绩的同学们表示最热烈的祝贺！此次赛事不仅为我校学生提供了高水平的展示平台，也进一步激发了广大海外华裔青少年学习中文、传承中华语言文化的热情。

The Australia Finals of the 8th Global Chinese Recitation Competition were successfully held on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 2025, at the Cherrybrook Chinese Language School. Our school had the honour of hosting this prestigious national event, marking the second time we have undertaken this significant responsibility for Australia’s premier Chinese recitation competition.
Over 100 students from our school enthusiastically participated. On the grand stage of the finals, contestants recited with confidence and profound emotion, vividly demonstrating the captivating beauty of the Chinese language and its rich cultural heritage. Their outstanding performances garnered high praise from both the judges and the audience.
We extend our warmest congratulations to all students who achieved excellent results in the competition! This event not only provided a high-caliber platform for our students to showcase their talents but also further ignited the passion for learning Chinese and preserving the heritage of the language among young overseas Chinese.

Cherrybrook Chinese Language School

欢迎观看本次活动的现场精彩报道！
Welcome to watch the highlights of our event coverage!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYMIDGNNQiV6WDxenioVZHSubW-Oc9sh/view?usp=drive_link

About the New President

At the Annual General Meeting this year, Kwok Ling Chau, also known as K.L., was elected as the President for 2020-2021.

In response to feedback from member during the AGM who would like to know more about the new president, here is a brief about him.

K.L. was our Hon Secretary since 2017. Members who participated in programs, such as, EYD, Chinese Opera Singing Group and Chinese Language School would have met him face-to-face. He was a member of the CCCA since 1995, but was unable to serve the community until 2017 due to personal and work commitments. 

Married with two children, K.L. migrated to Australia with the family from Hong Kong in 1987. Since then he worked with Overseas Telecommunication Commission (OTC), a federal organisation, as the engineering manager responsible for design and upgrade of maritime shore-to-ship radio communications system around 13 coast radio stations in Australia.  

In 1993, OTC merged with Telecom Australia, he ended up working as the project manager carrying design and construction of critical radio communications system for use by first responders, such as police, fire and ambulance until 2013. 

K.L. looks forward to meeting all the members and friends face-to-face, hopefully in the not-too-distant future.

Announcement

In order to improve the efficiency of managing the Cherrybrook Chinese Community Association Inc., the Management Committee convened on 23 September 2017, have decided that all sub-groups’ (including Seniors Group) activities will now be directly managed, coordinated, organised, facilitated and financed by the Management Committee.

This edict will take effect immediately.