INSTITUTE OF HOSPITALITY

Registered charity 326180 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HCIMA, HOTEL & CATERING INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, THE HOTEL CATERING AND INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Professional Body for managers & aspiring managers in the hospitality tourism and leisure sectors. Activities are educational and promotion of best paractice.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Institute held unrestricted reserves of £341,305 at the end of 2025, which represents approximately 5.7 months of operating expenditure. This level is reported to be comfortably within the Trustees' target policy of maintaining between three and six months' operating expenditure. Although the Institute reported a net deficit for the year, the Trustees confirm that the financial position remained relatively stable with healthy cash balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mark J Rees LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00474810

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Institute of Hospitality (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joanne Smith — Head of Operations (source)
• Aymen Fetouak — Head of Professional Development (source)
• Kim Bailey — Head of Marketing & PR (source)
• Leon Williams — Head of Finance (source)
• Isabel Hargreaves — Head of Membership & Commercial (source)
• Rosalyn Berry — Membership and Regional Officer (source)
• Maria Lockwood — Accreditation and Endorsement Manager (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.

• REISSAAR, Katariina — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• CLITHEROE, Michael James — director, appointed 22/04/2026on trustee list
• JAYAMANNE, Marissa — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• SLATER, Rory — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• BERKELEY, Elizabeth Mary — director, appointed 04/09/2024on trustee list
• DASS, Vandana — director, appointed 04/09/2024on trustee list
• TRAYNOR, Martin John Devereux — director, appointed 09/04/2024on trustee list
• NWUSO, Belinda, Dr — director, appointed 06/10/2022not on trustee list
• COLLIN, Brenda — director, appointed 01/02/2022on trustee list
• ASHTON, Mark — director, appointed 06/08/2021on trustee list
• AVIS, Peter — director, appointed 17/09/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Belinda Nwosu
• Elizabeth Mary Berkeley
• Katariina Reissaar
• Marissa Jayamanne
• Mark Ashton
• Martin John Devereux Traynor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Clitheroe
• Rory Slater
• Sibaji Chakraborty
• Vandana Dass

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT.

• THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT income £1.2m
• THE INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP income £4.7m
• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE income £195k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF HOUSING income £10.0m
• THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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