SHUBBAK:A WINDOW ON CONTEMPORARY ARAB CULTURE

Registered charity 1150374 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHUBBAK

SHUBBAK ACTIVITIES: ? TO STAGE A LARGE-SCALE FESTIVAL THAT OFFERS UK AUDIENCES THE CHANCE TO SEE SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING PRACTITIONERS OF CONTEMPORARY ARAB CULTURE.? TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY ARAB ISSUES THROUGH CULTURE? TO CELEBRATE THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ARAB COMMUNITY IN LONDON? TO RECOGNISE THE ENDURING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ARAB WORLD.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ARABIC CULTURE AND OTHER ASPECTS OF ARABIC ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE THROUGH PUBLIC PERFORMANCES AND DISCUSSIONS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £305,308 from £507,862 in the prior year, while expenditure was £333,883, resulting in a net deficit for the period. Free reserves stood at £81,224, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £30,000 required to cover three months of operational activities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Shubbak - A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Zeina Najjarchair
• Alaa Owaineh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Aimee Caroline Shalan
• Elizabeth Ann Briggs
• Mohammed Ismael Khalil
• Riwa Saab
• Sandra Sfeir

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVERPOOL ARAB ARTS FESTIVAL.

• LIVERPOOL ARAB ARTS FESTIVAL income £230k
• THE ARAB BRITISH CENTRE income £594k
• SAB income £57k
• RAMBAM SEPHARDI income £65k
• SOHBET SOCIETY income £210k
• LONDON SHARAD UTSAV income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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