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Impact Report April 2025 - March 2026

Sufra NW London is a charity in North West London that prevents hunger, fights poverty and builds community through food banks, community kitchens, advice and a community garden. This is its Impact Report for April 2025 to March 2026. Charity registration number is not stated in the report. Several outcome percentages in the PDF sit in a multi-column layout that could not be matched reliably to their labels, so only clearly stated figures are used. Contact email is the general admin address; no named Head of Fundraising or Director was found. Source: Sufra Impact Report FY2526 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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About

A food bank run across two hubs; Community Kitchens; the Community Wellbeing Service (a £4 a week membership with community shop, cafe and evening kitchen, advice, and health and wellbeing support); welfare advice (Advice Quality Standard Level 2); OpenARMs for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, including ESOL classes; St Raphael's Edible Garden with Nature Kids Club and youth volunteering; advocacy including chairing the Brent Food Strategy

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Served 25,073 freshly cooked meals through its Community Kitchens; the food bank recorded 17,136 recipients (including multiple attendances and household members) and supported 3,789 unique guests
Key Metric 2 545 households, representing more than 2,100 individuals, received ongoing support through the Community Wellbeing Service, and the advice teams assisted over 400 guests
Key Metric 3 204 volunteers gave over 15,600 hours; the St Raphael's Edible Garden grew over 575kg of fresh produce and captured 732kg of CO2

Key Outcomes

  • Preliminary findings from the SALIENT randomised controlled trial with University of Liverpool researchers (over 200 households enrolled) showed 98% of guests prefer supermarket cards over pre-packed food parcels
  • Stood alongside Citizens UK at a rally outside City Hall for transport equity for people seeking asylum, where a Sufra guest spoke to 200 people and cross-party London Assembly members
  • Case study: a single mum of two daughters, one with a significant disability, is now £700 a month better off after support from the Community Wellbeing Service

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved