CITB
Registered charity 264289 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C I T B, CITB-CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS, CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD, CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS · also registered in Scotland as SC044875 (OSCR)
Ensuring the construction industry has the right skills in the right place at the right time. Helping employers ensure that there are, and will continue to be, enough trained people available to meet the needs of the construction industry and to promote and improve the standard of training for the sector.
Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that CITB ended the 2024-25 financial year with unrestricted reserves of £78.9m, a decrease from £95.2m in the previous year, driven by increased grant and funding expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £18.6m for the period but maintains that its reserves remain above its stated policy floor of £50m. The Comptroller and Auditor General issued an unqualified opinion, confirming that income and expenditure were applied to purposes intended by Parliament.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by National Audit Office. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Brian Berry — CEO (source)
- James Butcher — Deputy Chief Executive (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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (35,316 likes) · instagram (11K followers)
Advertised salaries (public job ads)
Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£2.7m
Reserves (reported)
£78.9m
Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).
- Peter Lauenerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
- Herman Frans Frederik Kok · trustee of 2 other charities
- Holly Price
- Julia Heap
- Kevin Mcloughlin
- Michael Green
- Nicola Davis
- OWAIN JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
- Rachael Cunningham
- Sophie Seddon Hall
- Stephen Gray
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CITB financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that CITB ended the 2024-25 financial year with unrestricted reserves of £78.9m, a decrease from £95.2m in the previous year, driven by increased grant and funding expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £18.6m for the period but maintains that its reserves remain above its stated policy floor of £50m. The Comptroller and Auditor General issued an unqualified opinion, confirming that income and expenditure were applied to purposes intended by Parliament. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by National Audit Office.
Government & lottery funding
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