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Engineers Without Borders UK

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £808k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 3 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ghana, India, Kenya and more
Website
www.ewb-uk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Engineers Without Borders UK
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£808k£730k
  • 2024£784k£632k
  • 2023£615k£853k
Earlier years
  • 2022£814k£744k
  • 2021£646k£592k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

RELIEVE, OR ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF, POVERTY AND SUFFERING IN THE UK AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO;1. COORDINATING, FUNDING AND PARTICIPATING IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, PARTICULARLY PROJECTS OR PARTS OF PROJECTS WITH A STRONG ENGINEERING OR TECHNICAL COMPONENT;1.2. PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TRAINING IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;1.3 PROVIDING EXPERIENCE TO AND STIMULATING INTEREST AMONG THOSE WITH STRONG POTENTIAL IN THE FIELD OF DEVELOPMENT WORK;1.4 PROMOTING, COORDINATING AND FUNDING RESEARCH ON DEVELOPMENT TOPICS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH A STRONG ENGINEERING OR TECHNICAL COMPONENT;1.5 THE RAISING OF PUBLIC AWARENESS OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, PARTICULARLY THOSE RELATED TO ENGINEERING OR TECHNOLOGY;1.6 THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH OBJECTIVES ALIGNED WITH THOSE OF THE CHARITY BY PROVIDING THEM WITH HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES;2. ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO;2.1 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE UK AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, PARTICULARLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;2.2 THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY AND SUFFERING;3. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME RESOLVE.

Grants received

2 grants · £34,600 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 10Overseas Aid/famine Relief 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Professional services 10Business services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£808k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

10.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.0 in 2021

9 from 9 in 2021
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
1101849
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/08/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/10/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/11/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 MAR 2017 as amended on 27 Nov 2019 as amended on 25 Nov 2020 as amended on 17 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 04856607 · Active
Contact on the register
02037525820 · ceo@ewb-uk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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