In the past fifteen years, Surina has organised over 20 major events to raise both funds and more importantly, the profile of street children and their needs at local, national and international levels. She has received several awards for her contribution to causes for street children. In 2003 was highly commended for The Beacon Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to charitable and social causes.
Mrs. Narula is Co-Chair and Trustee of the ‘Consortium for Street Children’ – a network of over forty UK based development agencies. She travels extensively, Chairing or Co-chairing events at international charity conferences and assessing numerous projects, voluntarily and in her own time. She is on the board of numerous organisations to provide support to the causes she believes in, including ‘Plan International’ an organisation, engaged in child-centred community development in 43 of the poorest countries; Patron for ‘Hope for Children’ and ‘Patron for Motiroti’; Trustee for ‘Pratham’, a grass-root charity initiated by UNICEF in 1994, that promotes primary education of under privileged children in India. Surina chaired Pratham U.K.’s 2005 charity Ball, which raised a record £400,000.
Through her experience and networking Surina has also raised funds for ‘The Memorial Gates Trust’, a Memorial erected in Constitution Hill to recognise the contribution made in both World Wars by the Armed Forces of the Indian Sub-Continent and by their comrades from Africa and the Caribbean. She successfully led the organisation of a series of high profile events that raised several hundred thousand pounds, these included charity dinners with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal.
Surina enjoys art and culture and literature equally and through the medium of plays and films she promotes her various causes. She has chaired fundraising committees for the Victoria and Albert Museum for an exhibition on the Sikh kingdom and helped University of Cambridge development committee by organising a dinner with Professor Amartya Sen to introduce the library fund to potential donors. She hosted the premier of ‘Bombay Dreams’ and raised money for Princes Trust, Asia House and the Memorial Gates. She organised a charity preview of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnights Children’.
Recently she has produced a play titled ‘Gods Graves and Grandmother’ and raised money for Salaam Balak Trust, a charity working for street children in India. She has promoted films namely ‘Bawander’ ‘Asoka’, ‘Maya Mem
