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Registered charity · Kent

Institution of Royal Engineers

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £622k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Germany, Scotland
Website
www.instre.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£622k£574k
  • 2024£605k£566k
  • 2023£561k£546k
Earlier years
  • 2022£526k£559k
  • 2021£481k£568k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF MILITARY ENGINEERING AND TO PROMOTE MILITARY EFFICIENCY AND PARTICULARY THE MILITARY EFFICIENCY OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

Grants received

2 grants · £19,692 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £18,560
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,132

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,1322005-06-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,5602005-06-17
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.

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
2
trustees past 6 years
2y
average years in governance
0
company-linked trustees

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

Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£622k 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.

25.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 21.4 in 2021

6 from 7 in 2022
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
249882
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 27 FEB 1923AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 13 OCT 1980AS AMENDED ON 02 FEB 1996AS AMENDED ON 01 JAN 1999AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 19 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 09 APR 2025
Contact on the register
01634822371 · chiefexec@instre.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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