Chairman of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Former Chief Executive of The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
Mr. Ng Wang Tsang, the former Chief Executive of The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong.
Mr. Ng has been actively participating in community services. Presently, he is the chairman of the Social Work Department Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Baptist University, adviser of the Office of the Ombudsman, Hong Kong, member of the Post-Release Supervision Board, observer of the Independence Police Complaints Council.
Mr. Ng worked in Hong Kong Christian Service as a school social worker after graduation in 1984. Upon his return to Hong Kong after completing a master’s degree in 1989, Mr. Ng re-joined Hong Kong Christian Service to work in counseling, family education and foster care services. He joined Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong in 1991 and served as officer-in-charge of Ping Shan Halfway House. Half-year later, he was appointed the Assistant Director of the agency. In 1999, Mr. Ng joined the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong as the Support Service Officer, taking charge of various services of the Society including employment development, hostel service, community education and recreation, court social work and a social enterprise Bright Services Co Ltd. In 2003, Mr. Ng was promoted to the post of Business Director, Planning & Development, and was then promoted to become the Acting Chief Executive and Chief Executive of the Society in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Mr. Ng graduated from the social work bachelor degree program from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He respectively completed his master’s degrees in social work at Columbia University in New York City, and in public sector management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He acquired his third master’s degree in criminology from the University of Hong Kong.
Vice-Chairman(Internal) of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Executive Director of Hong Kong Employment Development Service (HKEDS)
Mr. Yiu Hung Chi is currently the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Employment Development Service (HKEDS) and has been working in the social service sector for more than thirty years. Mr. Yiu leads his colleagues in providing vulnerable groups and grassroots laborers proactively with employment services, training and retraining courses with the objectives of strengthening their job competencies and living skills and facilitating them to enter the job market. With Mr. Yiu’s initiative, HKEDS runs social enterprises to offer vulnerable groups and service targets with job opportunities and training placements. Mr. Yiu wishes to see the social enterprise movement gain a more important position in the government agenda as well as promoting a positive image to the public. He believes SE Chamber would be a platform to provide social enterprises and social entrepreneurs with networking and information exchange opportunities, and also to increase business opportunities.
Vice-Chairman (External) of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Chief Executive Officer of MentalCare Connect Co. Ltd.
Mr. Chung Wai Shing is the Chief Executive Officer of the MentalCare Connect Co Ltd, and the Founding Member of Social Innovation Charity Limited. Mr. Chung has joined the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong since 1994 and found the first integrated retail shop in the Social Services Building under the Association in 1998. Since then, a number of convenience stores and rehabilitation shops have been developed under Mr. Chung’s leadership. Accompanied by the rapid expansion of business, the retail services brand –‘Cheers Gallery’ has been successfully built up and became well-known in the network of the Hospital Authority.
In 2002, Mr. Chung was appointed as the Executive Director of the Association’s subsidiary, the MentalCare Connect Co Ltd. He led the professional team formed by a group of members with a commercial background to develop 30 social enterprise projects from the range of cleansing, retail, marketing service, publication, catering, co-op shop to e-commerce. In early 2012, Mr. Chung was seconded to MentalCare Connect Co Ltd. as the Managing Director and spent all his effort on leading and developing of the Company. MentalCare Connect Co Ltd. is now the most successful social enterprises in Hong Kong, obtaining numerous recognition and awards in the sector. In 2018/19, the annual turnover reached a record of over HK$155 million and this new record was proudly generated by 190 employees which 60% are ex-mentally ill persons.
Mr. Chung is a Registered Social Worker. He holds both of the Master’s Degree in Social Work and Business Administration.
Hon. Secretary of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises
Assistant Chief Executive of CFSC
Ms. Leung Siu Ling, Ivy, has worked in social service organizations for more than 20 years. In the past, she focused on serving ex-mentally ill patients and people with intellectual disabilities. She has planned and implemented a number of vocational rehabilitation services, residential services, community support services, etc. He has planned social enterprise projects such as catering, leather making, and handicraft industry. Currently, he is a senior executive of the organization, managing diversified social services, and mainly providing more socially influential services to the public.
Ms. Leung is a registered social worker who graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She also holds a master’s degree in public service management.
Hon. Secretary of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Ltd (HKGCSE)
General Manager (Social Enterprises) New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Ms. Wong So Kuen, Kris, has over 15 years of experience in the social service sector. She currently works as the General Manager (Social Enterprises) at New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association and is responsible for developing and managing diversified social enterprises, such as farmfresh330, rwb330, cafe330, Delight Kitchen, etc., to create work opportunities for people in recovery of mental illness. She also assists to cultivate the social entrepreneurship within the Association.
Ms. Wong holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hong Kong and a MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Hon. Treasurer of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises
Executive Director of the Hong Kong Blind Union
Ms. Ko Pik Kei, Peggy has joined the Hong Kong Blind Union since 2011 and is responsible for several information technology projects and social enterprise business development. She is currently the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Blind Union. She has also been working at the Hong Kong Council of Social Services, Cyber Senior Network Development Association Ltd and HKCSS – HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre. Apart from years of experience in managing information technology projects, she is also experienced in social enterprise development and employment service for people with disabilities.
Ms. Ko graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor in Social Work. She later obtained a Master of Philosophy from the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of The University of Hong Kong in 2008 and the scope of research is the impact of information technology to the elderly in Hong Kong.
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Chief Executive of the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong (SRACP)
Ms. Lee Shuk Wai, Anthea is the Chief Executive of the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong (SRACP) and the Company Secretary of Bright Services Company Limited (BS), a social enterprise of SRACP. She has been actively participating in community services.
Presently, Ms. Lee is the committee member of the Committee on Community Support for Rehabilitated Offenders of the Correctional Services Department, the member of the Release under Supervision Board of the Security Bureau, the committee member of the Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged of the Social Welfare Department, the Director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Bay Area Social Service Professionals Alliance and the Executive Director of the Institute of Social Service Development. In June 2018, in order to enhance her knowledge of public policy and management, she was accepted by the Civil Service Training Institute for joining a three-week leadership training program of “Leadership In Action Programme” which was organized by the government provided to the senior staff of civil services or non-government organizations.
Ms. Lee earned a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hong Kong Baptist University and two Master’s degrees in Social Sciences, one in Aging and Health and another in Criminology from the University of Hong Kong. In early 2017, she completed the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from the Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology on a scholarship granted by the Business School.
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Chief Executive Officer of St. James’ Settlement
Ms. Lee Yuk Chi, Josephine is the Chief Executive Officer of St. James’ Settlement. Involving herself in social services and social enterprise, Ms. Lee is the Internal Co-Chairman of Care for the Elderly Association Limited, Vice-Chairman of Community Drug Advisory Council and Social Innovation Charity Limited, etc. She has joined St. James’ Settlement since 1989. Starting her job as a family counselor and school social worker, she was promoted in 1997 to the supervisor of elderly services to manage community-based services for the elderly. In 2000, Ms. Lee began to head up a new unit focusing on partnership and alliance development.
At that time, she was responsible for the new project development, image building, marketing, and corporate communication. Besides, she worked on developing new charity projects to fill the service gaps in the community, namely People’s Food Bank, Funeral Navigation Service, Grant-in-aid Brightens Children’s Lives and at the same time, adopting innovative ideas to generate resources for agency development. In September 2011 she took up the post of Assistant Chief Executive Officer and in April 2013, she became the Deputy Chief Executive Officer. The Continuing Care Programs (mainly for elderly), territory-wide charity projects, new service development and external liaison are placed under her supervision and scrutiny.
Ms. Lee graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989 and received a Master of Social Sciences Degree in Social Work from the University of Hong Kong in 1994.
Council Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Ltd. (HKGCSE)
CEO of Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired.
Dr. Yuk Tak Fun, Alice, BBS, JP is one of the founders of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Ltd (HKGCSE). Alice has been GS/ CEO of a number of reputable NGOs and is now the CEO of Ebenezer. Dr. Yuk has been, for over ten years, the Chairman of UCNCHs (United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service) Management Committee. She acts as the Board member of a number of NGOs and schools as well as government advisory committees. She regularly gives lectures to universities local and abroad. Dr. Yuk is an experienced social work expert, administrator and entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience. She is committed to promote capacity building, development, and empowerment of social services, engagement of cross-sector partners, and actively seeking to improve the well-being of deprived children, youth, women and families through new policy and enhancing competitiveness in Hong Kong. She sponsors students of Social Work Faculty of China Women’s University in Beijing on research and scholarship purposes for more than a decade; she promotes and provides advice on social work education, social service and SE development in China.
Dr. Yuk has received her education from Universities in Hong Kong, Beijing and Australia, in social work, psychology, theology, law, public administration, and business administration.
Honorary Award
– One of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (1982)
– Hong Kong Social Entrepreneur Grand Award (2012)
– Outstanding graduate of the Department of Social Work, the University of Hong Kong
– Outstanding graduate of the Department of Public Administration, the University of Hong Kong
– Justice of the Peace
– Bronze Bauhinia Star
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Chairman of Social Innovation Charity Limited
Chairman of Fullness Christian Vocational Training Centre
Mr. Ngai Man Fu, Simon is the Chairman of Fullness Christian Vocational Training Centre.
Mr. Ngai had been the Deputy General Manager of an investment company responsible for setting up joint – ventures in China and acquisitions in Germany and the USA. He also had a wide range of working experience including sales, marketing, accounting, administration and human resources in another two companies. Mr. Ngai joined Fullness Christian Vocational Training Centre in 2000 and has been the Chairman of the organization since 2006.
Mr. Ngai graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BBA degree and got an MBA from the City University of Hong Kong.
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited
Superintendent of Jockey Club Rehabilitation Complex, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
Ms. Ong Man Chi, Fanny is the founding member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE). She has been actively participating in community services all these years. Presently she is also the founding member of the Social Innovation Charity Ltd, committee member of the Disciplinary Committee Panel of the Social Work Registration Board and the panel member of the Guardian Board. Ms. Ong has been working in the rehabilitation field with different rehabilitation agencies for more than twenty years with a mission to promote equal opportunities, social inclusion, acceptance and full participation of the people with disabilities in the community. She devotes herself in the vocational rehabilitation service as well as setting up quite a number of social enterprises to provide training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The social enterprises, under her leadership, are well recognized by the SE sector and the community. Presently, she is the superintendent of the Jockey Club Rehabilitation Complex of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. She is supervising more than 40 service units including social enterprises for providing residential, day training, community, and vocational rehabilitation services for people with disabilities.
Ms. Ong obtained her double degree in Social Work and Sociology in the USA in 1991. She also got an MBA degree from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012.
Council Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
General Secretary of The Boys’ Brigade Hong Kong
Ms. Ng Suk Ling, Angel is the General Secretary of The Boys’ Brigade Hong Kong. She is enthusiastic about community services. She is now a member of the volunteer movement, SWD, Kowloon City and YTM, Director of Institution of Social Service Development and Vice President of Social Work Alumni Association, Hong Kong Baptist University. Ms. Ng has been working with Evangelical Lutheran Church, Social Service, H.K, and Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Angel joined The Boys’ Brigade Hong Kong as General Secretary in 1999. BBHK is a Christian Uniformed Organization served more than 15,000 members in secondary schools, primary schools, kindergartens and youth centers all over H.K. During her service in BBHK, she not only expanded the membership and network with 200 churches and 100 schools in different denominations but also diversified services in different aspects. Besides Uniformed Group Service, there are professional training services, school social work services, character nurturing services, mainland social work professional supervision services, and waste recovery services.
Ms. Ng graduated from the Hong Kong Baptist University and further her studies in China Graduate School of Theology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Former Director of H.K.S.K.H. Lady MacLehose Centre
Chairman of Social Work Mission
Mrs. Yuk Fung Yin King, Helina is the former Director of H.K.S.K.H. Lady MacLehose Centre, an organization that delivers community-oriented and integrated social services to meet the needs of residents and special needy groups in the community. During the past eighteen years, Mrs Yuk and her team have successfully acquired funding from different sources to support numerous innovative and proactive social services to the deprived families and targets, especially the unemployed, single-parent families, new immigrants from Mainland China and the ethnic minority families in the community. After Mrs. Yuk stepped down from her role as an agency director, she is now actively involved in social work training and in providing consultancy to social enterprises with a social mission.
Mrs. Yuk believes that running social enterprises is a way to create employment for the deprived targets and to help them achieve the ultimate goal of self-reliance. Apart from her firm belief and solid knowledge of social enterprises, Mrs. Yuk has also extensive experience in actual operating and sustaining a social enterprise. She started first with a self-financing canteen in H.K.S.K.H. Lady MacLehose Centre in 2000 to provide catering services for the community and to serve the retraining function for the needy. In the following years, Mrs. Yuk set up other social enterprises including Pet-Zone training and Practice Centre, Health Online and the Career Station. In 2006 and 2007, she began to run another two social enterprises for the ethnic minorities and women groups, selling hand-made handicrafts and accessories. These two social enterprises have drawn great attention from the public on their achievements as well as on the growth in the number of participants that benefit from them. In June 2008, she successfully established the first NGO ethnic minority translation social enterprise called the “Hong Kong Translingual Service” and is now providing professional translation services to all hospitals under Hospital Authority, private medical sectors, government departments and business sectors. This venture has not only helped the community to better comply with the legal requirement but also created working opportunities for ethnic minorities in the community.
Mrs. Yuk joined the SE Chamber in 2010. She hopes that the Chamber can serve as an effective platform for all social enterprises to exchange their information and give impetus to the development of the social enterprises in Hong Kong.
Council Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Ltd. (HKGCSE)
Executive Director, Hong Kong Rehabilitation Power
Mr. Chiu Lap-Kee, Jimmy is a member of the 2016 Hong Kong Organizing Committee of Social Enterprise World Forum, Director of the Fullness Social Enterprises Society and the Hon. Advisor of Hong Kong Association for Parents with Physical Disabilities. He also takes an advisory role in different agencies such as the MEDEXO ROBOTICS(HK) and in the mainland such as Shunde Social Innovation Centre, Zhongshan Social Work Alliance, Guangdong YouRan Cultural Communication LTD, and Zhongshan Chi Hang Social Charity Association. From time to time, Jimmy would be invited to be the speaker and facilitator to different Conferences on the topic of social innovation such as the 2014 Social Business Day in Bangladesh by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Social Enterprise World Forum in 2015 and 2016.
Mr. Chiu is a very active person with a great zest for serving the community. He once served in the Labor and Welfare Bureau of HKSAR as a member of the Community Investment & Inclusion Fund (CIIF), the member of NTW Cluster Clinical Research & Ethnic Committee in Hospital Authority and the Public Affairs Forum, Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR. is an expert at and interest in the Corporate Governance of NGO, ESG, the legal framework for Social Enterprise and Marketing Strategy. He is also passionate about social innovation in technology. As Steve Jobs said, ‘Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower’. If more and more Social entrepreneurs are running SE/inventing new technologies and to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and people in need of special care, the world will be different.
Mr. Chiu joined the Hong Kong Rehabilitation Power (HKRP) in September 2018, an NGO that provides employment services to people with special needs. His mission is to help the NGO to improve its financial situation and management. Meanwhile, Mr. Chiu is the Founding Chair of Charm Net Ltd whose mission is to advocate and promote social innovation, creating share value and cross-sector collaboration in the mainland and elsewhere. Charm Net has two arms service. The first one is the management consulting for Environmental, Social and Governance reporting/CSR, SE Start-Up and quality control of welfare service. The second one is to support the multi-support platform for social enterprises with the resources, network and knowledge they need to succeed, support and grow in the field of Social Enterprises. Before joining the HKRP and establishing his own business, Mr. Chiu was the Chief Executive of Stewards, the NGO with 735 staff running social welfare, education, health care services and social enterprise for Hong Kong. Besides, he also served in the Hong Kong SAR Government (HKSAR).
Mr. Chiu has been suffering from poliomyelitis since he was a little child. With such a background, he dedicated himself to the well-being of the needy. He started his career as a social worker and transformed to a social entrepreneur. He obtained BA in Social Policy and MA in Social Work in the UK. He was then awarded MA in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution and Juries Doctor. Currently, Jimmy is the Visiting Lecturer of the Chinese Business School in HKU SPACE and Social Work Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Council Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises
Service Coordinator of the HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre
Ms. Yip Wing Foon has been working in social service organizations for more than 16 years and has previously provided youth employment services, family and community work. She joined the HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre in 2008. She is mainly responsible for supervising various employment training, job matching and social enterprise projects. She also operates social enterprise projects with a service strategy of “training, practice and employment”, including: members Restaurants, pet grooming projects, health massages, manicure services, cloth production workshops and retail stores.
She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a bachelor’s degree in social work and completed a master’s degree in social service management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Council Member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited (HKGCSE)
Founding Executives and Board of Directors of Senior Citizen Home Safety Association
Mr. Ma Kam Wah, Timothy is the former Executive Director of Project Flame at the City University of Hong Kong. He is a registered social worker, a fellow of Certified Risk Planner, being appointed as JP in 2012, and awarded Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong SAR Govt. in 2019.
Since 1996, Mr. Ma has been actively involved in the development and support of social enterprise in Hong Kong. He co-founded the Social Entrepreneurship Forum with Dr. KK Tse in 2008 and is an active member of the Organizing Committee of Social Enterprise Summit. In Nov. 2015, Mr. Ma was re-appointed as a co-opted member of the Social Innovation& Entrepreneurship Development Fund of Hong Kong SAR Govt. Owing to his outstanding leadership and development of the 24 hours operating Personal Emergency Link Service of the Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, he was awarded The Outstanding Social Entrepreneur (East Asia Region)in 2009 by Schwab Foundation. He is now leading the social innovation and entrepreneurship development in Hong Kong. He offers SE internship and visits for the students, so as to widen their exposure to the excitement of social enterprise operation. He also offers consultant advices to students and new start-ups who wish to take part in SE Challenge Competition and Award or involve in their own SE startup. He also serves as a mentor to the new start-up social entrepreneur. Prior to this, he has served as the Founding Executive Director of Senior Citizen Home Safety Association from 1996 – 2012.