ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY

Registered charity 1071974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE TELFORD CHALLENGE

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Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.1m

Registered

1998

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £519,280, with the trustees considering £303,822 to be free reserves available for charitable objectives. The trustees report that reserves are sufficient to cover six months of operating costs and other commitments, and the going concern assessment confirms sufficient resources to meet liabilities for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months operating costs, our office lease and other commitments (held: £304k)

“The new reserves figure will cover six months operating costs, our office lease and other commitments.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Magma Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — engineers against poverty (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.1m

Cost of raising funds

£70k

Reserves (reported)

£519k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Richard Ralph Threlfallchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Catherine Louise Jaafar
GEORGE OFORI
JOANNE DOWNHAM ACMA ACIS
Mark Harvey
RONALD BASIL WATERMEYER
Richard Bayfield
Rupert Sydenham
SARAH LETITIA CAROLINE COOPER
Tina Elisabeth Lilly Gunnarsson
Vinay Sharma

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.3m	£1.1m
31/12/2023	£583k	£623k
31/12/2022	£393k	£491k
31/12/2021	£458k	£552k
31/12/2020	£479k	£662k

Common questions

Is ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £519,280, with the trustees considering £303,822 to be free reserves available for charitable objectives. The trustees report that reserves are sufficient to cover six months of operating costs and other commitments, and the going concern assessment confirms sufficient resources to meet liabilities for at least twelve months. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Magma Audit LLP.

Who funds ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY as a grant recipient include THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS	FY2022	£118k	Building resilience through participation – Mapping interdependencies and climate-related risks of infrastructure systems in Uganda
THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS	FY2023	£25k	Building resilience through participation – Mapping interdependencies and climate-related risks of infrastructure systems in Uganda

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST	1	£14k
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£9k
The Parochial Church Council of Godalming Minster	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION.

COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION income £600k
SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD income £3.1m
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENGINEERS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £219k
INSTITUTE OF CAST METALS ENGINEERS income £296k
THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND (1992) income £463k
MECHANICS FOR AFRICA income £171k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY	£1.3m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION FY2024	£600k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD FY2025	£3.1m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENGINEERS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND FY2025	£219k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
INSTITUTE OF CAST METALS ENGINEERS FY2024	£296k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND (1992) FY2025	£463k	—	0	unclear	0.0%	no doubt

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