Directory of Agency Members of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service
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The below statistics are based on the information, financial report, and annual report provided by the agency members of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. If the information is quoted from other sources, it will be indicated separately.
| 1 | Number of social service organizations in Hong Kong (organizations) (Up to July 2022) | |||
| Agency Members of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service | 503 | |||
| Organizations receiving regular funds from the Social Welfare Department[2] | 170 | |||
| Member agencies of The Community Chest of Hong Kong[3] | 168 | |||
| 2 | Types of legal form (organizations) (Up to July 2022) | |||
| Company Ordinance | 416 | 83% | ||
| Societies Ordinance | 40 | 8% | ||
| Other Hong Kong Ordinances | 47 | 9% | ||
| 3 | Scope of services provided (organizations) N=499[4] | |||
| Children & youth services | 316 | 63% | ||
| Family services | 296 | 59% | ||
| Elderly services | 225 | 45% | ||
| Community services | 225 | 45% | ||
| Rehabilitation services | 165 | 33% | ||
| Services for specific groups | 75 | 14% | ||
| 4 | Number of organizations by districts (organizations) [5] N=499 | |||
| Sham Shui Po | 98 | |||
| Yau Tsim Mong | 88 | |||
| Kwun Tong | 86 | |||
| Wong Tai Sin | 75 | |||
| Eastern | 70 | |||
| Sha Tin | 66 | |||
| Kwai Tsing | 64 | |||
| Kowloon City | 59 | |||
| Central and Western | 57 | |||
| Tuen Mun | 52 | |||
| Yuen Long | 49 | |||
| Wan Chai | 47 | |||
| Tsuen Wan | 45 | |||
| North | 41 | |||
| Tai Po | 39 | |||
| Sai Kung | 38 | |||
| Southern | 37 | |||
| Islands | 25 | |||
| 5 | Total number of service centers N=449 | 4,399 centers | ||
| 6 | Number of board members[6] N=433 | 4,349 persons | ||
| 7 | Total number of staff[7] N=499 | 80,006 persons | ||
| 8 | Total number of professional staff (persons) | |||
| Registered social workers | 12,917 | |||
| Medical, Nursing and allied health professionals[8] | 4,800 | |||
| Teachers and educational professionals | 1,971 | |||
| 9 | Total number of central administrative staff[9] N=469 | 1,766 persons | ||
| 10 | Size of organizations by staff number (organizations) N=499 | |||
| 0 person | 91 | 18% | ||
| 1 - 10 persons | 152 | 30% | ||
| 11 - 100 persons | 165 | 33% | ||
| 101 - 500 persons | 51 | 10% | ||
| > 501 persons | 40 | 8% | ||
| 11 | Total number of volunteers[10] N=478 | 574,832 persons | ||
| 12 | Total annual income of organizations for 2019/20[11] N=483 | HK$35.9 B | ||
| 13 | Sources of funding[12] N=483 | |||
| Social Welfare Department[13] | HK$19.4 B | 54% | ||
| Other government departments | HK$3.9 B | 11% | ||
| Service and fee Income | HK$5.7 B | 16% | ||
| Private and corporate funding | HK$3.5 B | 10% | ||
| The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (Including “Capital Income”)[14] | HK$2.7 B | 8% | ||
| The Community Chest of Hong Kong[15] | HK$0.3 B | 1% | ||
| Social enterprises[16] | HK$0.5B | 1% | ||
| 14 | Total annual expenditure of organizations for 2019/20 N=483 | HK$35.2 B | ||
| 15 | Allocation of expenditure[17] N=483 | |||
| Elderly services | HK$12.4 B | 35% | ||
| Rehabilitation services | HK$10.1 B | 29% | ||
| Children & youth services | HK$5.1 B | 15% | ||
| Family services | HK$4.7 B | 13% | ||
| Community services | HK$2.1 B | 6% | ||
| Others (e.g. Designated service users or capital expenditure) | HK$0.7 B | 2% | ||
| 16 | Total surplus of organizations N=483 | HK$ 0.7B | ||
| 17 | Size of organizations by annual expenditure (organizations) N=483 | |||
| < HK$5,000,000 | 211 | 44% | ||
| HK$5,000,000 - < HK$10,000,000 | 63 | 13% | ||
| HK$10,000,000 - < HK$30,000,000 | 92 | 19% | ||
| HK$30,000,000 - < HK$100,000,000 | 56 | 12% | ||
| ≥ HK$100,000,000 | 61 | 13% | ||
| 18 | Average organization expenses ratio N=460 | |||
| Service and programme expenses ratio | 88.6% | |||
| Administrative expenses ratio | 11.4% | |||
| 19 | Range of administrative expenses ratio[18] N=460 | 6.1% -16.3% | ||
| 20 | Number of social enterprises in Hong Kong (up to April 2022) | 711 units | ||
| 21 | Social mission of social enterprises (Units) (up to April 2022) N=711 | |||
| Work Integrated Social Enterprise | 404 | 57% | ||
| Promote social inclusion | 323 | 45% | ||
| Serve unmet social needs | 296 | 42% | ||
| Promote sustainable development | 211 | 30% | ||
| Support and empower disadvantaged and marginalized groups | 150 | 21% | ||
| Poverty alleviation | 84 | 12% | ||
| Advocate fair trading | 66 | 9% | ||
| 22 | Partnership - Number of caring companies / caring organizations 2021/2022 | 4,156 organizations |
[1] Statistics are primarily as of 2020/21 and will be annotated if the data is not for that period.
[2] The information is obtained from the online document of the Social Welfare Department.
[3] The information is obtained from the member agency list in the website of The Community Chest of Hong Kong.
[4] N represents the total number of valid replies of the statistic by the organizations.
[5] This item counts the number of organizations with service centers in a given district.
[6] The total number of board members is the sum of the numbers of board members of all surveyed organizations in 2020/21.
[7] Full-time staff includes permanent and contract staff. A half-time staff is counted as 0.5 full-time staff.
[8] Care workers are excluded.
[9] The central administrative staff includes personnel from related departments of corporate communications and marketing, fundraising, information technology, accounting and finance, and human resources.
[10] The total number of volunteers is the sum of the numbers of volunteers of all surveyed organizations in 2020/21.
[11] Calculations are based primarily on the organizations’ 2019 or 2019/20 financial statements, and only the income and expenditure of social services provided in Hong Kong by the organizations are included. If an organization does not mainly provide social services in Hong Kong, and its financial statement does not provide data by region, then its income and expenditure are not included.
[12] The sum of various sources of revenue may vary slightly from the total annual income due to rounding. Calculations are based primarily on organization's 2019 or 2019/20 annual report. The income and expenditure arising from the operation of primary and secondary schools, hospitals, historical and cultural venues, public services, subsidized housing, hotels and guesthouses, properties and overseas services are excluded.
[14] This data is quoted from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Annual Report 2019/20.
[15]This data is quoted from The Community Chest of Hong Kong Annual Report 2019/20
[16] This data includes revenue generated from shops operated by organizations.
[17] This is a projection based on the Social Welfare Department's 2019/20 subventions for various services and the distribution of services by organization.
[18]Organizations are divided into 5 expenditure groups according to their total expenditures. For each expenditure group, an average administrative expenses ratio is calculated using figures of the organizations in the group. The range of administrative expenses ratio is the range of such ratios of these 5 expenditure groups.