THE INSTITUTION OF POWER ENGINEERS

Registered charity 1139906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE INSTITUTION OF DIESEL AND GAS TURBINE ENGINEERS

To advance the knowledge of all methods and technologies for the production of power for electricity generation, mechanical drive, energy storage and other uses, including their design, development, application, manufacture, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance, and promotion of the exchange of information and ideas on these subjects amongst members of the Charity and others.

Objects

The objects of the Charity shall be to advance, for the public benefit, the knowledge of all methods and technologies for the production of power for mechanical drive, electricity generation, marine propulsion, energy storage, etc. by any process and the related products and design, development, application, manufacture, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance and promotion of the exchange of information and ideas on these subjects amongst the members of the Charity and others.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Institution reported a deficit of £7,914 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets to £37,960. The Trustees note that while current cash provides liquidity for the forthcoming year, the trend from positive margin to deficit must be noted. The financial review highlights a need to improve sponsorship and event revenues to reverse reduced operating margins.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07244044

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SAMPATH, Suresh, Professor — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• TOTTMAN, Peter John — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• BARKER, Kevin — director, appointed 15/12/2022on trustee list
• MACAFEE, Ian David — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• HARRISON, Paul — director, appointed 28/11/2019on trustee list
• COOPER, George Douglas — director, appointed 17/11/2016on trustee list
• ARCHER, Stanley — director, appointed 22/11/2013not on trustee list
• PLATT, John Anthony — director, appointed 05/05/2010on trustee list
• PLATT, John Anthony — secretary, appointed 01/05/2020

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Douglas Cooper
• Ian David Macafee
• JOHN ANTHONY PLATT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Barker
• Paul Harrison
• Peter John Tottman
• Professor Suresh Sampath
• RONALD JAMES HUNT
• Stan Archer

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

Operates in: Canada · India · Throughout England And Wales · Tunisia

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