The Vietnamese Students Association was found on the 6th of April 1996 by a group of young Vietnamese students as a consequence of the recognition that Vietnamese students who are living and studying in the United Kingdom had been facing many common challenges in social, economics, traditional and western ideologies, as well as educational pressures. Therefore Vietnamese students needed to unite as a single identity throughout the country to support each other in educational and social challenges, and also to take part in the wealth creation process for the Vietnamese community, through charitable works. The meeting on that day brought forward students and many young Vietnamese professionals to establish common ideology, together with the basis of a constitution, and thus provided a general framework for the new organisation to operate. Since then, the association has flourished and grown to be a major organisation within the Vietnamese community. With this trend, we are hoping to make it into a more relevant role in the wider multicultural community of the British Society. The society is better known in its abbreviation HSVVN, i.e the initial letters of the association if written in Vietnamese.