Sustainable Fibre Alliance

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.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• China
• Mongolia

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 January 2025, it had income of £1,676,661 and spent £1,438,816.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 311%, from £407,734 in the year to 31 January 2021 to £1,676,661 in the year to 31 January 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 86% of its income in the year to 31 January 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Life Cycle Analysis gave £43,403 in the year to 31 January 2024, 4% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 January 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 January 2024, the charity named 5 funders who gave £103,708 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Chimaeze OnyeiwuAppointed 21 December 2023
• Fabio GarzenaAppointed 4 March 2026
• Karen PerryAppointed 8 May 2022
• Paul LittlefairAppointed 2 March 2021
• Una Jones Ma, BSCAppointed 14 January 2015
• William Ian WhitefordAppointed 31 January 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1165742

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 February 2016

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/01/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16/02/2016

Company number

09389265This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.sustainablefibre.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Flintshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Flintshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Flintshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Clwyd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Fflint Wrecsam