THE ENGINEERING COUNCIL

Registered charity 286142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5377821 · Wikipedia · also known as ECUK, THE ENGINEERING COUNCIL (UK)

The Engineering Council regulates the engineering profession in the UK through the award of CEng, IEng, EngTech and ICTTech professional titles. The Engineering Council publishes registration standards and quality assures 40 professional engineering bodies licensed by the to assess individuals for registration. Engineering Council also represents the UK engineering profession internationally.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF, ENGINEERING (INCLUDING RELEVANT TECHNOLOGY) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THEREBY TO PROMOTE INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE IN OUR UNITED KINGDON OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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

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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a profit of £189,601 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted reserves held at £3,461,126. This reserve level is significantly above the charity's stated policy target of six months' operating budget (£1.71M). The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £150,001 - £160,000 (FY2024) to £160,001 - £170,000 (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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 ~11.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof John Chudley BSc PhDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alastair Revell BSC Hons
• Amanda Hill
• Andrew Richard Rowe BEng Hons
• Bola Oladimeji
• Caroline Hamilton MBE CEng
• David Castle IEng FIED
• Dr Maurizio Pilu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Siu Man Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emer Murnaghan OBE CEng
• Emma Crichton MEng CEng
• Garry Martin Gilby IEng CEnv
• Graham Taylor
• James Shields CEng CSi
• Margaret Graham CEng Hon
• Martin Penn CEng FRAeS
• Professor Evona Teh CEng FIET
• Professor Kay Bond CEng FIED · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Stephen Michael Richardson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Vaitkevicius CEng FIED
• Toby Robinson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Prof John Chudley BSc PhD — trustee here and at THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD.

• THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD income £10.0m
• THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY income £65.1m
• THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS income £10.6m
• ENGINUITY income £15.8m
• ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD income £43.1m
• THE ENGINEERING TRUST income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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