THE GUILD OF BENEVOLENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Registered charity 208727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GUILD OF BENEVOLENCE OF THE IMAREST, THE INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS GUILD OF BENEVOLENCE

The Guild aims to assist generally in the relief of hardship for marine engineers, past and present members of the IMarEST, and their dependents, by making regular grants to supplement very low incomes and by making one-off grants to assist in the purchase of items essential for the recipient's wellbeing, essential home repairs, costs of respite care and with debt relief.

Objects

THE GRANTING OF RELIEF TO NECESSITOUS AND DESERVING PERSONS WHO ARE (A) PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE AND PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS, (B) MARINE ENGINEERS WHO POSSESS OR HAVE POSSESSED CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY OR CERTIFICATES OF SERVICE ISSUED BY THE RELEVANT UK GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, (C) PAST AND PRESENT EMPLOYEES OF THE INSTITUTE OR OF THE GUILD AND (D) THE WIVES, HUSBANDS, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, CHILDREN AND/OR DEPENDANTS OF ANY OF THE PERSONS REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPHS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves increased to £4,271,750, supported by a significant rise in incoming resources to £722,865, largely driven by legacies. The Trustees confirm that the underlying financial strength remains sufficient to maintain current grant levels, noting that investment income continues to provide adequate funds for grant-making.

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 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.

• 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
• 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

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

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~226.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor James Crabbe CMarScichair
• Aidan Kirby SIMarEST
• Alexander Campbell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Captain Henry Bryan Anthony Richard Andrews-Tipler BSc AFNI · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Goldsworthy CEng
• Deborah Ann Brown
• EUR ING Gary John McKenzie · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gary John Hindmarch CEng
• Joanna Sawh MSc
• Martin Murphy MSc
• Neil Atkinson MNM BSc
• Peter John Blacklock BEngH

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

Operates in: Malaysia · New Zealand · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVERPOOL MARINE ENGINEERS' AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS' GUILD.

• LIVERPOOL MARINE ENGINEERS' AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS' GUILD income £55k
• THE INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY income £3.1m
• THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND income £107k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENGINEERS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £219k
• THE BENEVOLENT FUND OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS income £1.7m
• THE MARINE TECHNOLOGY TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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