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The Institution of Lighting Professionals

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £994k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.theilp.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Institution of Lighting Professionals
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£994k£1.1m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£860k£789k
Earlier years
  • 2022£786k£716k
  • 2021£553k£641k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND IMPROVE THE SCIENCE AND ART OF LIGHTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS ON THE SUBJECT AMONG MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION AND OTHERWISE AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE

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.

8 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8General 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 8

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£1.1m 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.

18.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 27.2 in 2020

7 from 9 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
268547
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 JANUARY 1928 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 23 SEPTEMBER 1985, 19 SEPTEMBER 1988 AND 15 JUNE 2010. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23 JULY 2010
Companies House
Company number 00227499 · Active
Contact on the register
01788576492 · info@theilp.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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