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Registered charity · London

The Society of Operations Engineers

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.soe.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society of Operations Engineers
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.2m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.6m
  • 2022£2.6m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£2.6m
  • 2020£2.5m£2.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) TO IMPROVE AND ELEVATE THE TECHNICAL AND GENERAL UNDERSTANDING, KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND COMPETENCE OF PERSONS ENGAGED OR DESIRING TO BE ENGAGED IN OPERATIONS ENGINEERING OR IN ANY RELATED EMPLOYMENT, AND THE INTEGRITY AND REPUTE OF THE PROFESSION THEREOF;(B) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PRACTICE, AND INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE FIELD OF OPERATIONS ENGINEERING AND ANY OTHER RELATED BRANCHES OF ENGINEERING, AND THE DISSEMINATION AND EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE THEREOF;(C) BY MEANS OF (A) AND (B) ABOVE, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY THEREOF, TO PROMOTE THE SAFETY, EFFICIENCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF OPERATIONS ENGINEERING TO THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.6y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

8
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 10

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 9Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

17.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 25.7 in 2020

23 from 25 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
1081753
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 NOVEMBER 1998 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS ON 14 JULY 2000, 20 FEBRUARY 2003, 15 JANUARY 2004, 31 MARCH 2005, 22 JUNE 2006 AND 28 JUNE 2007 as amended on 30 Jun 2022
Companies House
Company number 03667147 · Active
Contact on the register
02076301111 · soe@soe.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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