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Registered charity · London

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers is a registered charity (number 278104) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by David Alan Cooper MBE since 2020. Latest income £11m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Ireland, United Arab Emirates and more
Website
www.cibse.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£17m£10m
  • 2023£9.5m£9.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.5m£7.7m
  • 2021£6.9m£6.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL OF THE ART SCIENCE AND PRCTICE OF SUCH ENGINEERING SERVICES AS ARE ASOCIATED WITH THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND WITH INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES SUCH AS ART SCIENCE AND PRACTICE BEING HEREINAFTER CALLED "BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERING". 2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN BUILDING SERVICES, EINGINNERING AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

12 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

1
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 12Environment/conservation/heritage 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General 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 1

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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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£11.1m 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.

7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.3 in 2021

79 from 62 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
278104
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER AND BY-LAWS 17TH MARCH 1976 AS AMENDED ON 13TH FEBRUARY 1985, 23RD AUGUST 1995 AND 7TH MAY 1998 AS AMENDED BY A SCHEME OF 7 AUGUST 2007.
Companies House
Company number RC000885 · Active
Contact on the register
02086755211
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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