THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Registered charity 211014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1164410 · Wikipedia · also known as IET, THE IET, THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS · also registered in Scotland as SC038698 (OSCR)

Education, policy & awareness activities engage the public in the role of science, engineering & technology in enhancing peoples' lives. IET gathers & distributes knowledge content via a variety of channels to a global audience, drawing on the unique strengths of its membership. Membership & professional development focuses on career long professional development & registration of individuals.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY & TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS ON THESE SUBJECTS AMONGST THE MEMBERS OF THE IET AND OTHERWISE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 the charity holds free reserves of £100.1m, which is significantly above the stated target range of £44.9m to £52.5m. The group reported a net income of £6.95m for the year, supported by investment gains, despite operational losses. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 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 handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Hubbard — President (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £85k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram (13K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Samantha Elizabeth Hubbard IEng FIETchair
• Alkis Spyrou
• Andrew C Downton
• David Cleevely
• Dawn Elizabeth Ohlson CEng FIET
• Dr Graham Herries
• Dr Paul Michael Needham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian MacGillivray CEng MIET
• Justina Ho
• Kathryn Trudy Norris-Grey
• Katy Deacon CEng MIET
• Mamta Rani Singhal MBE FIET
• Mark Goudie CEng FIET
• Sam Presley
• Simon Harrison · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Bahrain · Belgium · Brunei · Canada · China · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Egypt · France · Germany · Gibraltar

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 THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS.

• THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS income £10.6m
• THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD income £10.0m
• ENGINUITY income £15.8m
• ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY income £116k
• INSTITUTE OF CAST METALS ENGINEERS income £316k
• THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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