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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

The Engineering Development Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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 And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.etrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Engineering Development Trust
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.4m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.3m
  • 2023£3.0m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE, FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE FURTHERANCE OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT.

Grants received

21 grants · £530,979 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

13 trustees on the board

2.5y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 13General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 14Health and social care 2Business services 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.0 in 2021

48 from 47 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
1156066
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 FEB 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 08879288 · Active
Contact on the register
01707871504 · info@etrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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