BRE TRUST

Registered charity 1092193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOUNDATION FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT · also registered in Scotland as SC039320 (OSCR)

Funds and supports research, education, publications and other activities in the built environment for public benefit. Awards post graduate research scholarships and supports university chairs.Commissions, facilitate and supports carbon emission reduction projects and such other activities and services as are beneficial to the built environment.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that BRE Trust reported a net surplus of £7.1m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income from charitable activities increasing to £61.9m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were maintained at £29.5m, which is within the stated policy target of committed contract value plus three months of operating costs. The organization confirmed it has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Sustainable High value Construction Products From Domestic Black Bag Waste —
• The Active Building Centre Research Programme (ABC RP) —
• New supply chains and addressing barriers to commercialisaion of concrete products made without Portland cement —
• System Optimisation and Control for Homes - SOCH —

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Wilbrahamchair
• Ashley Mark Hook
• DAVID PETER BURRETT REID
• Gary Mills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Graeme Rickard
• Kelly Louise Bream
• Linda Margaret Chandler
• Victoria Denise Pope · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST.

• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER TRANSPORT CHARITABLE TRUST income £819k
• BRADFORD YOUTHBUILD TRUST LTD income £129k
• CONSERVATION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST income £4.1m
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION income £211k

Side by side with its peers

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