BRITISH PLUMBING EMPLOYERS COUNCIL (TRAINING) LIMITED

Registered charity 1012890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BPEC (TRAINING) LTD

To promote and advance for the public benefit the education and training of persons employed orintending to be employed in the plumbing, mechanical services and other related industries both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.To promote useful research into any matters relating to the training for employment in the plumbing,mechanical services and other related industries.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £6,611,930, supported by an investment portfolio valued at £4,114,628. The trustees report that the charity does not actively fundraise and relies on investment income and gifted profits from its trading subsidiary to meet its objectives. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bates Weston Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Purnell — Director (source)
• Brian Warrender — Director (source)
• Duncan Wilson — Chair (source)
• Neil Collishaw — CEO (source)
• Duncan Sharp — Director (source)
• Steve Craig — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (91% 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: 68.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Wilsonchair
• Brian Warrender
• DAVID MARK ANTROBUS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Duncan Sharp
• Michael Purnell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PLUMBING AND HEATING ENGINEERING.

• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PLUMBING AND HEATING ENGINEERING income £1.3m
• SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD income £3.1m
• THE OLDHAM ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £374k
• Construction Workers’ Charitable Trust income £391k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PLAISTERERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £143k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST income £730k

Side by side with its peers

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