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Registered charity · Uk

Institution of Railway Signal Engineering

  • 25 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Australia, Austria and more
Website
www.irse.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Institution of Railway Signal Engineering
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2021£919k£1000k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF SIGNALLING (WHICH SHALL MEAN THE WHOLE OF THE APPARATUS, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL OR OTHERWISE, METHODS, REGULATIONS AND PRINCIPLES WHEREBY THE MOVEMENT OF RAILWAY OR OTHER TRAFFIC IS CONTROLLED) BY THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH, THE COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL AND THE HOLDING OF CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND MEETINGSB) THE MAINTENANCE OF HIGH STANDARDS OF PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL CARE AMONGST THOSE WORKING WITHIN THE INDUSTRY AND PROMOTION OF IMPROVED SAFETY STANDARDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4.2y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (24)

Portfolio (1)

23
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 25General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 31Professional services 5Construction 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

16.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 27.3 in 2020

13 from 10 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1046999
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/11/1912AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/04/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/04/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/04/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/2013 as amended on 27 Apr 2018 as amended on 02 Nov 2021 as amended on 16 Jan 2026
Companies House
Company number 00125685 · Active
Contact on the register
02078081180 · hq@irse.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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