INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ETHICS

Registered charity 1180741 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17144030 · Wikipedia

The IBE is a Charity providing space and guidance for organisations and leaders to turn values into action through leadership, culture and decision making.CEO, Lauren Branston (Bryan)- contact - [email protected] of Operations and Culture - Sonja McGurk- contact - [email protected]

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN BUSINESS ETHICS AND RELATED SUBJECTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE STUDY AND APPLICATION OF ETHICAL STANDARDS IN THE MANAGEMENT AND CONDUCT OF INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS GENERALLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE; AND(2)TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL OR OTHER ASSISTANCE TO SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE BODY OR BODIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £129,855 for the year, driven by lower income compared to the prior year and strategic investments in infrastructure. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £296,235, which meets the stated policy target of holding a minimum of £200,000 to cover routine operations and unforeseen fluctuations.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11594672

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.

• PAGE KC, Flora — director, appointed 02/07/2025not on trustee list
• DAWSON, Mark — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
• KALATZI, Siwan — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
• MASON, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Fabiola Pia — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
• LANGTON, Timothy Stuart — director, appointed 23/10/2019on trustee list
• TERRY, Louise Catherine — director, appointed 23/10/2019on trustee list
• MCGURK, Sonja — secretary, appointed 01/07/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Flora Page KCchair
• Fabiola Williams
• Mark Dawson
• Sarah Mason
• Siwan Kalatzi
• Timothy Langton

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

Operates in: Australia · Cyprus · France · Luxembourg · New Zealand · South Africa · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIMITED.

• INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIMITED income £182k
• THE INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP income £4.7m
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & BUSINESS LIMITED income £2.5m
• CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF FUNDRAISING income £4.4m
• INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE income £5.2m

Side by side with its peers

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