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Registered charity · London

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £28m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Malaysia, Scotland, Hong Kong
Website
www.imeche.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£28m£29m
  • 2024£32m£33m
  • 2023£30m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£29m£29m
  • 2021£23m£22m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. (FOR DETAILS PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 7 OF THE ROYAL CHARTER).

Grants received

2 grants · £27,200 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.

11 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

2.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 11Education/training 11

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£31.9m 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

222 from 199 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
206882
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF 22 APRIL 1930 AS AMENDED 21 DECEMBER 1946, 13 MAY 1954 AND BY-LAWS AND AMENDED 4 MARCH 1968, 21 APRIL 1980, 11 NOVEMBER 1980, 30 JULY 1982 AND 6TH JANUARY 1998 28 MAY 2014
Contact on the register
02073046862 · enquiries@imeche.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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