THE ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1156066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039635 (OSCR)

The Engineering Development Trust changed its legal status to a company limited by guarantee (company number 8879288) on 1st April 2014 and transferred all of the operations, assets and liabilities of the Charitable Trust (Charity number 1002459) to this new charity number (1156066) on that date.EDT is the largest provider of STEM enrichment activities for young people in the UK

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE, FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE FURTHERANCE OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT.

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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Registered contact address: Welwyn Hatfield, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £285,400 for the year, driven by an 11% shortfall against budget income targets. Despite this loss, unrestricted reserves stood at £966,300, which the trustees confirm is above the minimum level required by their reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Abraham & Dobell. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

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

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — EDT (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julie Feest OBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• David Sobo — Operations Director & Deputy CEO (source)
• Ty Watson — Partnership Director & Deputy CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Royal Air Force Charitable Trust — “The year long collaboration will see the RAF Charitable Trust become Headline Funder of Industrial Cadets and EDT delivered Key Stage 3 Expe…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Elena Maria Rodriguez-Falconchair
• Alpana Warke Vijayaraghavan
• Dominic Waring
• Iain Duncan Kinnis
• Jacob Mynard
• Jonathan Simmons
• Katie Jane Mawdsley
• Keith Brady · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olivier Usher
• PROFESSOR CATHERINE ANN HOBBS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Alan Senior
• Robyn Vincent
• Stuart Aitkenhead

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD.

• THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD income £10.0m
• EAST END DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £41k
• New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering income £5.6m
• THE EAST DURHAM EMPLOYABILITY TRUST income £926k
• THE ENGINEERING TRUST income £1.7m
• AUTISM EARLY SUPPORT TRUST LIMITED income £622k

Side by side with its peers

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