SUFRA - NW LONDON
Registered charity 1151911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUFRA
Sufra - NW London is a Community Food Bank and Kitchen, based in the London Borough of Brent, which aims to support disadvantaged families suffering food poverty in the local area.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure of £141,968, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £720,112. Per the trustees' report, these reserves represent approximately 5.7 months of operating costs, which places the charity comfortably within its stated reserves policy target range of 4 to 6 months. The filing notes that strong opening reserves allowed the charity to absorb a shortfall in income from trusts and foundations.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Deitch Cooper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Rajesh Makwana, BEM — Executive Director (source)
- Gill Carter — Deputy Director (source)
- Ashraf Mohammed — Trustee (Chair) (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£102k
Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Ashraf Mohammedchair
- Asad Bhojani
- Helena Krawitz
- Lucy Bannister
- Rozia Hussain
- Sanya Syed
- Zemira Braganza
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Brent · Ealing · Harrow
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SUFRA - NW LONDON financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure of £141,968, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £720,112. Per the trustees' report, these reserves represent approximately 5.7 months of operating costs, which places the charity comfortably within its stated reserves policy target range of 4 to 6 months. The filing notes that strong opening reserves allowed the charity to absorb a shortfall in income from trusts and foundations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Deitch Cooper LLP.
Who funds SUFRA - NW LONDON?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SUFRA - NW LONDON as a grant recipient include HOLLYHOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, JOHN LYON'S CHARITY, THE JOHN MACLEOD CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HEADLEY TRUST, KUSUMA TRUST UK.
Known funders
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