CHEMICAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 221601 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide assistance to members and ex-members of the profession of Chemical Engineering, and their immediate dependents, who, in the opinion of the Trustees, are either in necessitous or straightened circumstances, whether temporarily or otherwise of financial assistance, owing to age, illness, accident, or mental or bodily infirmity.

Objects

TO ASSIST MEMBERS AND EX-MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NECESSITOUS OR STRAIGHTENED CIRCUMSTANCES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rugby, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £734,121, which is above the stated policy minimum of £500,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £36,883 for the year, reducing its total reserves from £771,004 to £734,121. The Trustees consider the required level of reserves has been met and intend to utilise excess reserves to support increased charitable activity.

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
• 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)

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr John Stewart May · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Patricia Mary Melton FIChemE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Rachel Cooke FIChemE
• Professor Geoffrey Colin Maitland CBE FREng · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Stephen Michael Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Malaysia · New Zealand · Singapore · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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
• ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY income £2.0m
• CHRISTIAN ENGINEERS IN DEVELOPMENT income £150k
• THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD income £10.0m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS CENTRAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• INSTITUTE OF CAST METALS ENGINEERS income £316k

Side by side with its peers

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