As have the early 1950s & 60s, residents from the New Territories region of Hong Kong have immigrated to the United Kingdom. A large majority of these people began their lives in the laundry & catering businesses. Through a lot of hard work over the years, many of them managed to achieve roles in highly respected professions and positions. Subsequently, the vast majority of these people managed to easily integrate into English Society, making new homes and settling with their families in several regions of the UK.

The vast majority of these people (approximately 80%) came originally from the Mei-Zhou Territory of the Eastern Guangdong Province in the Southern China.

Mei-Zhou is a cultural province where the Chinese dialect, Hakka, is spoken predominantly. Hakka people are a unique ethnic group of the Han Chinese, who originally came from an area around the Yellow River, and who later migrated to the South, in order to avoid the chaos created by wars centuries ago. Due to the hostilities faced by these new settlers, many were forced into the mountainous regions of Guangdong. The migratory tradition continued, with the redistribution of Hakka people to the most remote parts of the world, and many people in Mei-Zhou immigrating to Hong Kong during the last century.

In September 2007, this Non-profitable Association have been formed by a group of local successful business people, including President Mr. Michael Chan, Ms. Dorian Chan, Mr. Kim Bong Lam, Mr. Frankie Tsang & Mr. Ken Tong as well as many other community volunteers & leaders of Chinese Society in Birmingham, such as Ms. Irene Chu, Mr. Bobby Wong Ms Patricia Law & Mr. Terence Kwong.

Our aim is to work together with all Mei Zhou immigrants old & new in the UK, as well as to bring together friends & relatives across the country to learn more about our roots & origin. We also aim to create a helpline to provide people who have newly immigrated with all the necessary and correct information, in addition to encouraging them to join us in participating local community activities, charity work and fundraising. Last, but not least, the Mei Zhou Association also feels that it is important to honour our elderly with gifts during our Lunar Calendar Main Festival, as well as to pay respect to them in return for all that they have contributed to our family & society as a whole.

In order to do all this, we need the help and support of people, like yourself to assist us. What we hope you will agree, is a scheme that will greatly benefit towards our local community.

On behalf of the association, and its members, our president looks forward to any support that you may be able to offer us. I further look forward to hearing from you with any views or suggestions that you may have to offer.

聯誼會簡介

　　始自五十年代，定居於香港新界的我鄉鄉僑，移居英倫。憶昔前人胼手胝足，克勤克儉，艱苦奮鬥，在斯開創家園。迄今我鄉鄉僑已遍佈英倫三島及歐洲大陸，社會地位日益提高，無論在政界、商界、學術界等皆人材輩出，成為本地政、經發展的一大動力。

　　在發展本土經濟的同時，我們心繋家鄉。基於熱愛鄉梓的血脈情懷，為凝聚鄉情，團結互助，服務社會，奉獻家鄉，我們倡議成立「英國海外梅州聯誼會」。

　　「英國海外梅州聯誼會」是一個非牟利的社團。以愛國愛鄉，團結鄉親，服務社會，共求進步和共謀發展為宗旨。

　　我們以「凝聚鄉情，奉獻家鄉」為目的。我們致力團結和凝聚旅居英倫的鄉親，以我們的智慧和力量，促進英國和梅州市的經濟和文化交流，並透過助學捐款等公益事務，對梅州市作出積極的貢獻。

　　無論你是祖籍梅州、或是在梅州成長、或是關心梅州發展的朋友，讓我們團結一致，攜手共創「英國海外梅州聯誼會」，關心及促進家鄉的建設和發展，造福鄉梓。