INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES

Registered charity 258390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6039318 · Wikipedia · also known as I E S, INSTITUTE OF MANPOWER STUDIES LIMITED

The Institute's mission is to help bring about sustainable improvements in employment policy and HR management for the benefit of all. The Institute works with government departments, agencies, professional and employee bodies, and employers, and disseminates and shares knowledge widely; its expertise is available to all through research, consultancy, publications and the Internet.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1.1 TO PROMOTE THE INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THIS OBJECT) BY UNDERTAKING RESEARCH AND PROVIDING ADVICE AND CONSULTANCY DESIGNED TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH FINDINGS, IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVE THE PRACTICE OF DECISION MAKERS IN PUBLIC POLICY BODIES AND EMPLOYING ORGANISATIONS;3.1.2 TO DEVELOP AND ADVANCE THE STUDY OF EMPLOYMENT POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DRAWING ON A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES, AND THROUGH THE USE OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; AND3.1.3 (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS), NO OTHER PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income over expenditure of £30,374 for the year ended 31 March 2025, marking a surplus for the sixth successive year. Total reserves stood at £1,579,718, comprising unrestricted funds of £1,714,798 and a restricted fund deficit of £135,080. The trustees consider current reserves adequate to meet current operating needs and maintain a forward order book exceeding six months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. 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 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
• 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 10/03/2022, 38 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Becci Newton — Director, Public Policy Research (source)
• Tony Lloyd — Director, Finance and Resources (source)
• Dan Lucy — Director, HR Research and Consulting (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Frost
• Emma Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Stewart
• Graham Steel
• Kathleen Poole
• LINDA GREGORY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalie McManus-Barnett
• Nusrat Hathiari · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dame Carol Black · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephen Denis Elliott

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY RESEARCH.

• THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY RESEARCH income £200k
• INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK income £993k
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES income £65k
• THE INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES income £13.1m
• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k

Side by side with its peers

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