The Cairns and District Chinese Association Inc (CADCAI) has reached an historic milestone.

Next. year CADCAI will build  Queensland’s first  Chinese Culture and Heritage Centre (CCCHC) in Greenslopes Street, Cairns.  Located opposite the popular Centenary Lakes and Chinese Friendship Gardens. the CCCHC will be at the heart of CADCAI’s operational activities, enabling the organisation to share, celebrate and preserve north Queensland’s Chinese history, heritage and culture with a broader audience.

Importantly the centre will also provide a permanent home and exhibition space for Cairns’ nationally significant  Lit Sung Goong Temple collection as well as a venue for community performing arts – lion, dragon and Molihua traditional dance), research, education, celebrations and festivals.

Cairns Regional Council has supported the offer of a 30-year trustee lease for the land further to the current trustee permit.

The commitee has engaged award-winning TPG Architects to design the new centre and manage its construction.

In October 2024 CADCAI was excited to secure election commitments from both the LNP $2.7 million and ALP $3 million to construct the Centre. This funding combined with CADCAI funds of $1.3 million following the sale of the Arthur Street land and other fund raising will enable the Centre to be built in full.

 CADCAI  acknowledge and thank Yolonde Entsch of the LNP and Michael Healy and Ritchie Bates of the ALP  for these commitments.

CADCAI invites the broader community to support the project by making a tax deductable donation to the FNQ Chinese Cultural Heritage Fund

1)  On line donations by credit or debit card only. GiveNow automatically generates a tax invoice.  To donate click on link below:
https://www.givenow.com.au/cairns-chinese-culture-and-heritage-centre

2) Direct Payment into CADCAI’s Bendigo Bank account
Name:  Cairns and District Chinese Assoc. Inc.
BSB:  633000
Acc No:  141617589.

3) In Person: Please contact CADCAI’s treasurer  treasurer@cadcai.org.au. )  to organise payement

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY 

For more information regarding this project please contact info@cadcai.org.au

PLEASE DONATE NOW. 

Donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

Thank you for your support of CADCAI’s long-standing goal to have the CCCHC  to showcase North Queensland’s unique Chinese history, objects, performances and stories.

Please share our request for financial assistance with family and friends.