Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

INSTITUTION OF FIRE ENGINEERS 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities £1,387,603 £1,540,254 £1,703,319 £1,743,382 £1,870,769
Donations & Legacies £1,183 £10,000
Other Income £11,133 £16,517 £9,685 £41,205 £15,411
Investment Income £549 £605 £602 £436 £1,034
Total income £1,253,858 £1,403,005 £1,560,134 £1,714,543 £1,796,340 £1,888,367
Charitable activities spending £1,320,999 £1,371,701 £1,484,078 £1,655,515 £1,773,985
Fundraising costs 3% 3% 2% 2% 2% 2%
Other spending
Total spending £1,287,939 £1,359,119 £1,409,351 £1,513,785 £1,691,985 £1,809,237
Surplus/deficit -£34,081 £43,886 £150,783 £200,758 £104,355 £79,130
Established: 33 years
(99 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Professional associations
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Outwith Scotland
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (10)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 37-71
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 01/01/1992, number: SC012694
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/07/1924, number: SC013267
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, CV37 9NW

Objectives

The object for which the Institution is established is: To promote, encourage, and improve the science and practice of Fire Extinction, Fire Prevention and Fire Engineering and all operations and expedients connected therewith, and to give an impulse to ideas likely to be useful in connection with or in relation to such science and practice to the members of the Institution and to the community at large.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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