THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS LIMITED

Registered charity 235351 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IEA

The IEA's activities include research, publications, conferences, lectures, seminars, special events, a website, blog and extensive programme of student and teacher outreach.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING BY RESEARCH INTO ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCE AND BY EDUCATING THE PUBLIC THEREIN. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CL 3(A) TO (C) AND (A) TO (Q))

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 · 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 reported a net movement in funds of (£1,075,211) for the year, resulting in unrestricted general funds being in a deficit of £548,533. Despite having net current liabilities, the trustees confirm the going concern basis is appropriate based on forecasts to March 2027 and adequate resources. Total net assets decreased from £6,319,096 to £5,243,885, largely due to investment losses and reduced donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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)

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 00755502

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.

• CASTANEDA FERNANDEZ, Juan Enrique, Professor — director, appointed 31/03/2026not on trustee list
• BJORNSKOV, Christian, Professor — director, appointed 10/11/2020on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Linda Harrison — director, appointed 05/06/2019on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Robin Warwick — director, appointed 07/03/2017on trustee list
• PRIOR, Bruno George — director, appointed 12/11/2013on trustee list
• MINFORD, Anthony Patrick Leslie — director, appointed 30/01/2002not on trustee list
• BOYD, Robert James — director, appointed 16/05/1995on trustee list
• MAYER, Andrew — secretary, appointed 02/03/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: The Rt Hon David Davis MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £2k · 14/11/2018 · Washington DC, and Oklahoma City, OK, USA · ref V0400239
  Attended meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington. Attended meetings in Oklahoma State Capital and Oklahoma State University

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 27.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRUNO PRIOR
• Linda Harrison Edwards
• PROFESSOR PATRICK MINFORD PHD
• Professor Christian Bjornskov
• Professor Juan Enrique Castenada Fernandez
• ROBERT BOYD
• ROBIN WARWICK EDWARDS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Belgium · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

• THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS income £20.2m
• INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION ACADEMY income £104k
• IAG UK & EUROPE income £671k
• IA - FOUNDATION income £55k
• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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