SUSTAINABLE FIBRE ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1165742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SFA

The Sustainable Fibre Alliance (SFA) is a non-profit international organisation working with the extended cashmere supply chain, from herders to retailers. Our goal is to promote a global sustainability standard for cashmere production in order to preserve and restore grasslands, ensure animal welfare and secure livelihoods.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves were £228,003, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £50,000. The charity reported a net income increase to £237,845 and confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern without material uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ian Whiteford — Board Chair (source)
• Una Jones — CEO (source)
• Dr. Batkhishig Baival — Mongolia Country Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Johnstons of Elgin — “Founded by Una Jones and Batkhishig Baival, with founding support from Johnstons of Elgin, Burberry, and Kering Group” (source page)
• Burberry — “Founded by Una Jones and Batkhishig Baival, with founding support from Johnstons of Elgin, Burberry, and Kering Group” (source page)
• Kering Group — “Founded by Una Jones and Batkhishig Baival, with founding support from Johnstons of Elgin, Burberry, and Kering Group” (source page)
• UK government — “First international SFA conference held in Ulaanbaatar; UK government funding secured.” (source page)
• Loro Piana — “Loro Piana, Maison of the LVMH group, has announced the launch of “Resilient Threads” , a 5-year programme supporting Mongolia’s cashmere co…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chimaeze Onyeiwu
• Fabio Garzena
• Karen Perry
• Paul Littlefair
• UNA JONES MA, BSC
• William Ian Whiteford

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

Operates in: China · Mongolia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUSTAIN: THE ALLIANCE FOR BETTER FOOD & FARMING.

• SUSTAIN: THE ALLIANCE FOR BETTER FOOD & FARMING income £2.7m
• THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• ISEAL ALLIANCE income £6.1m
• THE FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE income £824k
• THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED income £1.6m
• RAINFOREST ALLIANCE LTD income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.