The Pearl Foundation was conceived as a Social Enterprise Organisation, designed to further social inclusion and participation of the Chinese community in Britain, both culturally and economically. The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Britain in 1885, and from those few hundred residents has swelled to a significant 250,000. It is a community that can and has achieved much - an unprecedented 25% of Chinese men and women possess university degrees, whilst its young people can, according to OFSTED, claim the highest rate of success in obtaining GCSE passes. Yet it remains an overlooked and often marginalised minority.

It is the purpose of the Pearl Foundation to work to change this, via the promotion of an inclusive society and active citizenship. In accordance with these social aims, the Pearl Foundation is a strictly non-profit organisation, with all fiscal surplus reinvested directly into the community. Business expertise is applied to the pursuit of social objectives, thus allowing the Pearl Foundation to foster economic, cultural, social and environmental improvements in both the Chinese and the wider community.