THE MEMBERS BENEVOLENT TRUST OF THE INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS, MINERALS AND MINING

Registered charity 1198887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide assistance to Members and member's dependants where and when determined to be needed.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO (THE “OBJECTS”) ARE TO RAISE AND MAINTAIN, BY DONATIONS AND VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS, A FUND WHICH SHALL BE DEVOTED TO THE RELIEF OF:(A) PERSONS WHO ARE MEMBERS OR FORMER MEMBERS, OR CURRENT OR FORMER PERMANENT EMPLOYEES OF MORE THAN TWO YEARS’ STANDING, OF THE INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS, MINERALS AND MINING OR OF BODIES WHICH HAVE MERGED WITH, OR BEEN ABSORBED BY, THE INSTITUTE, WHETHER BEFORE THE DATE OF THIS DEED OR OTHERWISE (“ABSORBED BODIES”), OR OF BODIES WHICH WERE ABSORBED BY SUCH ABSORBEDBODIES; AND(B) THE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, PARENTS, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, OR DEPENDANTS, OF THOSE NAMED IN (A) ABOVE, WHETHER SUCH PERSONS ARE ALIVE OR DECEASED, WHO ARE NECESSITOUS BY REASON OF DEATH, ILLNESS, REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES OR SOCIAL DISTRESS, AND TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE SAID PERSONS IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL CONTACTS, ADVICE AND SUCH FINANCIAL DISBURSEMENTS AS THE BOARD DEEMS APPROPRIATE.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,555,147, which exceeds the stated policy target of one year’s charitable expenditure. The charity reported a net increase in funds for the period, supported by investment growth and donations, while maintaining a positive cash position.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Matthew Waughchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Rhodes
• Dr CHRISTOPHER CORTI
• Dr Carlos Lledo Fernandez
• Dr Cheryll Pitt
• Dr Ross John Freeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephen Jeremy Paterson
• JOHN KAILOFER
• JULIAN BENNETT
• Michael James Beeson
• Paul Howard Marsden
• Peter James Hoddinott
• STEPHEN DAWE
• Sarah Boad
• Trevor Fletcher · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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