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

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD income £10.0m
• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k
• GFG FOUNDATION income £145k
• ENGINUITY income £15.1m

Side by side with its peers

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