THE INSTITUTE OF QUARRYING

Registered charity 244812 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the science, practice and professionalism of quarrying through education, training and the encouragement of progressive improvements in standards of business, technical and environmental performance.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £263,900 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by investment gains. The trustees consider the reserves of £3,484,696 (excluding restricted funds) to be adequate to maintain the charity's ability to carry out its stated objectives.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ben Williams — President (source)
• Ben Uphill — Chair (source)
• James Thorne — Joint CEO (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)

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~26.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (50% 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: 25.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Paul Wilkinson
• Benjamin Charles Williams
• Benjamin Mark Uphill
• Dr Helen Katherine Bailey-Watkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Stuart Whitelaw
• Kenneth Andrew Meadows
• Robert Maurice-Jones
• Steven Richard Godfrey
• Wayne Thomas David Darwin
• William James Hardcastle

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

Operates in: Hong Kong · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United Arab Emirates · United States

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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