CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Registered charity 298740 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30255646 · also known as CSE, THE URBAN CENTRE FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

CSE's mission is to advance sustainable energy policy and practice. CSE seeks energy solutions that engage people and communities to meet real needs for both environmentally sound and affordable energy services. Ending the misery of cold homes and enabling action to tackle the threat of climate change are core objectives.Work is delivered in partnership with many agencies.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CENTRE IS ESTABLISHED ARE;A) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE, CARRY OUT AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION, DEMONSTRATION, AND RESEARCH IN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND THEREBY INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF ENERGY IN ALL ITS ASPECTS. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROMOTING ENERGY AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE ELDERLY OR WHOSE HOUSING CONDITIONS ARE UNSATISFACTORY.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group generated a combined income of £11,707,128 and reported a surplus of £179,274 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the reserves policy, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,726,466, which is above the stated minimum target of £1.5m, and the trustees confirmed sufficient resources 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 Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £79,999 (FY2024) to £641,100 (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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Coal India, IIT Madras Sign MoU to Set Up Centre for Sustainable Energy newsonair.gov.in · 27/05/2026
• New Centre for Sustainable Energy by IIT Madras & Coal India to Advance Clean Energy Innovations telegraphindia.com · 24/10/2025
• Coal India, IIT Madras Join Hands to Set Up Centre for Sustainable Energy apacnewsnetwork.com · 23/10/2025
• Coal India, IIT Madras Join Hands To Set Up Centre For Sustainable Energy sarkaritel.com · 23/10/2025
• ESG: How Coal India’s ‘Centre for Sustainable Energy’ Could Power India to Net-Zero by 2070 indiacsr.in · 23/10/2025
• Coal India & IIT Madras Join Hands to Establish Centre for Sustainable Energy pib.gov.in · 22/10/2025
• Coal India & IIT Madras Join Hands to Establish Centre for Sustainable Energy indiaeducationdiary.in · 22/10/2025
• IIT Madras and Coal India Limited Launch Centre for Sustainable Energy to Drive India’s Net-Zero Transition iitm.ac.in · 22/10/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02219673 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Janine Michael — Chief Executive (source)
• Matt Ferdinando — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Keith Hempshall — Director of Local and Community Empowerment (source)
• Charlotte Johnson — Director of Research and Analysis (source)
• Ian Preston — Director of Development and External Affairs (source)
• Paul Winney — Director of Household Energy Services (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HAMMOND, Barbara Ann, Dr — director, appointed 05/08/2026on trustee list
• DOYLE, Rachael Louise — director, appointed 03/08/2026on trustee list
• NELSON, Sarah Kate, Dr — director, appointed 31/07/2026on trustee list
• WILDBLOOD, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/01/2024on trustee list
• BURCHER, Rachel Emma — director, appointed 25/01/2024not on trustee list
• MILLER, Claire — director, appointed 25/01/2024on trustee list
• SHANMUGALINGAM, Shantha Ganesh — director, appointed 04/10/2018on trustee list
• GILLIS, William Wright — director, appointed 04/10/2018on trustee list
• HULL, William John — director, appointed 09/07/2015not on trustee list
• DARNTON, Andrew Leyland — director, appointed 26/06/2014on trustee list
• CRAMPTON, Ariane — director, appointed 26/06/2014on trustee list
• FERDINANDO, Matthew Peter — secretary, appointed 12/10/2023

Official officers record.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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.

• Senior Research Manager — £44,736 - £49,028 per year · Bristol (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 28/10/2026)
• Energy Connector — £26,400 per year pro rata. The total salary over the six-month contract is £5,288–£7,932, depending on your agreed hours. · Bristol (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 28/10/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Darnton
• Ariane Crampton
• BILL HULL
• Claire Miller
• Dr Barbara Ann Hammond
• Dr Sarah Kate Nelson
• Jane Wildblood · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachael Louise Doyle
• Rachel Emma Brisley
• SHANTHA SHANMUGALINGAM
• William Gillis · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS.

• COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS income £1.9m
• MCS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £11.9m
• SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY income £6.5m
• CENTRAL SUSSEX UNITED AREA income £771k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE (TEC) income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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