Registered charity · London
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation
- 8 trustees
- Income £646k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Lord Patrick John Thompson VallanceChair · since 2023
- Angela Margaret Jane HunterTrustee · since 2020
- Dame Anne Richards DBETrustee · since 2024
- Dr Robert LangerTrustee · since 2024
- Professor John HennessyTrustee · since 2019
- Professor Sir James Rufus McdonaldTrustee · since 2024
- Sir John Wilfred Lazar CBETrustee · since 2024
- Yewande Akinola MBETrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.qeprize.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£646k£2.1m
- 2024£798k£2.6m
- 2023£793k£2.1m
Earlier years
- 2022£762k£1.6m
- 2021£777k£2.1m
Charitable objects
3.1 TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING BY PROMOTING RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF ENGINEERING AND THE DISSEMINATION AND APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND BY ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE (AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) TO ASPIRE TO A CAREER IN ENGINEERING; AND3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF ENGINEERING;BY ESTABLISHING, AWARDING AND PROMOTING A HIGH-PROFILE AND INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNISED PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING TO BE KNOWN AS "THE QUEEN ELIZABETH PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING" AND TO BE AWARDED TO AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR A GROUND-BREAKING ADVANCE IN ENGINEERING WHICH HAS CREATED SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC BENEFIT.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Lord Patrick John Thompson Vallance Chair since 2023
- Angela Margaret Jane Hunter since 2020
- Dame Anne Richards DBE since 2024
- Dr Robert Langer since 2024
- Professor John Hennessy since 2019
- Professor Sir James Rufus Mcdonald since 2024
- Sir John Wilfred Lazar CBE since 2024
- Yewande Akinola MBE since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Angela Margaret Jane Hunter since 2020
- Professor John Hennessy since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Lord Patrick John Thompson Vallance Chair since 2023
- Angela Margaret Jane Hunter since 2020
- Dame Anne Richards DBE since 2024
- Dr Robert Langer since 2024
- Professor John Hennessy since 2019
- Professor Sir James Rufus Mcdonald since 2024
- Yewande Akinola MBE since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Sir John Wilfred Lazar CBE since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1147743
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/03/2013 as amended on 19 Sept 2024
- Companies House
- Company number 08077332 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02077660600 · info@qeprize.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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