INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIMITED

Registered charity 1076159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AFFAIRS LIMITED, THE INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ISBE is the UK network for individuals and organisations driving small business and entrepreneurship research, enterprise support and advice, entrepreneurship education and for those who formulate, deliver and evaluate policy in this area. ISBE provides a forum for promoting, disseminating and debating evaluation, practice and research.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY RESEARCH INTO MATTERS RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves decreased slightly from £193,669 to £192,111 during the year, with net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report that the board agreed a budget for 2025 that will leave the charity with sufficient funds to continue to operate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Lorna Treanorchair
• Dinah Bennett
• Dr Alison Ellen Hampton
• Dr Ana Maria Romero Martinez
• Dr Emily Beaumont
• Dr Endrit Kromidha
• Dr Gary John Chapman
• Dr James Cunningham
• Dr Joan Lockyer
• Dr Nkechi Adeeko
• Dr Robert Howel Bowen
• Dr Trudie Murray
• PROFESSOR PAUL JONES
• Prof. David Grant Pickernell
• Prof. Steven Johnson
• Professor George Saridakis
• Professor Robert Lowry Newbery
• Professor Sue Smith

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

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

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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