THE INSTITUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES LIMITED

Registered charity 277611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IES

The Institution is a charitable organisation which promotes and raises public awareness of environmental science by supporting professional scientists and academics.

Objects

To advance environmental protection and improvement by promoting a scientific approach to understanding and ensuring the conservation of the physical and natural environment. To advance the education of the public by the provision of research and coordination of education, and to engage with those professionally concerned with environmental work, education or studies.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

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 total income decreased by 56% to £860k due to the absence of a large prior-year grant, while core business income grew by 11%. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £97,355 against a policy target of £103,500, and the trustees consider the overall fund balance of £1.824m satisfactory.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adaoyibo Denise Okpala
• Anthony Edward Hill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brigette Elizabeth Reid
• Dr Alison Julie Stokes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Bernard Devereux
• Dr ERIC MACDONALD VALENTINE
• Dr Iain Stewart McLellan
• Dr Ian William Byrne
• Dr Kerry Rait
• Professor Elizabeth Anne Clewett Brierley
• Roisin Lindsay
• Sarah Joanna Horrocks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, LONDON.

• INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, LONDON income £310k
• THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS income £10.6m
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT income £4.2m
• THE INSTITUTE OF LICENSING income £556k
• THE INSTITUTION OF LIGHTING PROFESSIONALS income £994k
• THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.