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Registered charity · Northampton

The British Institute of NON-Destructive Testing

  • 26 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Australia, China, Greece and more
Website
www.bindt.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Institute of NON-Destructive Testing
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.1m£3.9m
  • 2023£3.6m£3.2m
  • 2022£3.5m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.6m£2.6m
  • 2020£2.2m£2.3m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING, CONDITION MONITORING, DIAGNOSTIC ENGINEERING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED MATERIALS AND QUALITY TESTING DISCIPLINESTO PROMOTE MEETINGS FOR THE READING AND DISCUSSION OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND FOR THE DELIVERY OF TALKS AND LECTURES AND FOR THE DISCUSSION AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF ALL MATTERS RELATED TO OR CONNECTED WITH NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OR OTHER ELECTRONIC, ELECTRICAL, PHYSICAL OR SCIENTIFIC MATTER OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTETO INITIATE, CONDUCT AND SUPERVISE RESEARCHES INTO AND THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL STUDIES OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE AND OTHER MATTERS AS AFORESAID ASND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF THESE STUDIESTO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING AS A WHOLE

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.

4.5y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (26)

25
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 26

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 27Manufacturing 3Business services 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2020

39 from 35 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
260666
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 03/12/1993 AS AMENDED ON 30/05/1995 AS AMENDED ON 19/03/2003 AS AMENDED ON 11/09/2013 AS AMENDED 10-9-14 AS AMENDED ON 16 NOV 2016
Companies House
Company number 00969051 · Active
Contact on the register
01604438300 · david.gilbert@bindt.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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