THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1163419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Built Environment Trust promotes and delivers education with the aim of improving the quality of our built environment. It inspires and educates both professionals and the general public, through a range of activities including holding exhibitions, organising lectures, seminars and events, providing and distributing information and providing facilities for research, innovation and discussion.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net consolidated deficit of £198,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by rising costs and minimal fundraising income. Despite this operational loss, the group maintained adequate resources with consolidated net current assets of £869,630 and unrestricted reserves of £3,438,150, leading trustees to confirm the entity is a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,000 - £109,999 (FY2024) to £170,000 - £179,999 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09631202

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.

• REITER, Anna Beatrice — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
• GODDARD, Valery Jane — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
• LIPSCOMBE-NOTT, Sara Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Richard Antony, Dr — director, appointed 20/12/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, David Robert — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (98% 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: 90.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Beatrice Reiter
• David Robert Hughes
• Dr Richard Antony Robinson
• Sara Elizabeth Anne Lipscombe-Nott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Valery Jane Goddard

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 BRE TRUST.

• BRE TRUST income £64.8m
• UKGBC income £3.5m
• CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER TRANSPORT CHARITABLE TRUST income £819k
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m
• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE LTD income £440k

Side by side with its peers

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