THE INSTITUTION OF LIGHTING PROFESSIONALS

Registered charity 268547 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ILE, THE ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC LIGHTING ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF LIGHTING ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC LIGHTING ENGINEERS

The institution aims to promote, encourage and improve the science and art of lighting for the benefit of the public.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND IMPROVE THE SCIENCE AND ART OF LIGHTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS ON THE SUBJECT AMONG MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION AND OTHERWISE AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £1,129,581, which is in excess of its stated policy target of approximately £250,000. The total funds carried forward are £1,632,390, and the auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Magma Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michala Medcalf — President (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~18.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Bolt
• Graham Neil Skinner
• James Duffin
• John Sutcliffe
• Jonathon David Ayers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kieron Jarvis
• Michala Medcalf
• Peter Raynham

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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