REFUGEE BIRIYANI & BANANAS

Registered charity 1189561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Refugee Biriyani & Bananas is a female and community-led grassroots humanitarian organisation providing emergency aid, advocacy and support to people affected by war, displacement and poverty. We deliver food, water and essential aid, and run the Community Humanitarian Leaders Programme (CHLP), supporting people with lived experience to be involved in humanitarian response and leadership.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO HUNGER, SICKNESS OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, OR EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL ILL-HEALTH), PRIMARILY ARISING FROM PUBLIC CALAMITY (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WAR, CONFLICT AND NATURAL DISASTERS) AND GEO-POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, OPPRESSION OR POLITICAL PERSECUTION) IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF, OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF HUMANITARIAN, MEDICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL, HEALTH, EDUCATIONAL OR SOCIAL PROGRAMMES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £101,172 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £432,049 against total expenditure of £330,877. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £167,832, which is above the stated policy target of £80,000. The trustees confirm that the accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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 — Refugee Biriyani & Bananas (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amber Ritsonchair
• Aliya Abidi
• Elena Martinez Garcia
• Mantaqaa Akhtar
• Nele Burke
• Rhian Planchant
• Triana Riazor Marquina

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

Operates in: Egypt · Greece · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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