THE INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS

Charity number: 1046999
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

World-wide professional engineering institution, licensed by the Engineering Council UK, for railway signal, telecommunication and other engineers and operators involved or interested in railway signalling, control and communications.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023

Total income:
£1,250,301

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Donations and legacies £6.19k
Charitable activities £0
Other trading activities £1.20m
Investments £44.09k
Other £0

Total expenditure:
£1,265,654

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Raising funds £518.92k
Charitable activities £746.73k
Other £0

£105,651 investments gains (losses)

Charitable expenditure

Charitable expenditure

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In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.

Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.

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Raising funds and other expenditure £518.92k
Charitable expenditure £746.73k

People

13 Employee(s)

25 Trustee(s)

90 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

One or more trustees are also directors of the subsidiaries

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
Who the charity helps:
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Eswatini
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Latvia
  • Luxembourg
  • Macau
  • Malaysia
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Northern Ireland
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Scotland
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad And Tobago
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Governance

Registration history:
  • 06 June 1995: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
  • I R S E (Working name)
Company number:
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Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

25 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Christian Glaettli Trustee 24 April 2025
None on record
Jeremy Morling Trustee 24 April 2025
None on record
Desirae Faber Trustee 07 October 2024
None on record
Bernardus Johannes Van Schijndel Trustee 24 May 2024
None on record
Mahesh Gadge Trustee 25 April 2024
None on record
Martin Ramzi Fenner Trustee 24 April 2024
None on record
Stephen Allday Trustee 24 April 2024
None on record
Pierre-Damien Jourdain Trustee 24 April 2024
None on record
Roy Andrew Brammer Trustee 28 April 2023
None on record
Michael David Ewart Trustee 28 April 2023
None on record
Yousef Kimiagar Trustee 28 April 2023
None on record
Jeetendra Gautamchand Dhelaria Trustee 28 April 2023
None on record
Peter Pequignot Gracey Trustee 21 April 2022
None on record
Jane Copperthwaite Trustee 07 October 2021
None on record
Gordon Bik Shun Lam Trustee 23 April 2020
None on record
Robert Lord Cooke Trustee 23 April 2020
None on record
Harvinder Singh Bhatia Trustee 23 April 2020
None on record
Ian James Allison Trustee 26 April 2019
None on record
Professor Roderick Muttram Trustee 26 April 2019
None on record
Keith Upton Trustee 26 April 2019
None on record
Bogdan Godziejewski Trustee 27 April 2018
None on record
Paul McSharry Trustee 27 April 2018
None on record
Jane Elizabeth Power Trustee 21 April 2017
None on record
Stephen Walter Boshier Trustee 22 April 2016
None on record
Andrew Knight Trustee 22 April 2016
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2019 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023
Total gross income £954.74k £886.35k £918.85k £1.15m £1.25m
Total expenditure £1.01m £931.94k £999.54k £1.22m £1.27m
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income - Donations and legacies £41.71k £19.09k £8.90k £12.51k £6.19k
Income - Other trading activities £448.26k £835.51k £874.43k £1.10m £1.20m
Income - Charitable activities £425.92k £0 £0 £0 £0
Income - Endowments £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Income - Investment £38.84k £31.75k £35.52k £38.68k £44.09k
Income - Other £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Income - Legacies £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Expenditure - Charitable activities £559.01k £497.75k £580.66k £658.42k £746.73k
Expenditure - Raising funds £455.32k £434.19k £418.88k £558.31k £518.92k
Expenditure - Governance £8.00k £4.00k £4.00k £4.16k £5.00k
Expenditure - Grants institution £0 £5.97k £7.64k £7.08k £0
Expenditure - Investment management £7.87k £8.01k £9.21k £8.84k £9.00k
Expenditure - Other £0 £0 £0 £0 £0

Assets and liabilities

Definitions for assets and liabilities
Own use assets

These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.

Long term Investments

Investments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.

Other assets

These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.

Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability

This is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.

Total liabilities

These are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.

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Asset / Liability 31/12/2019 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023
Own use assets £31.23k £19.56k £4.18k £46.97k £55.58k
Long-term investments £1.81m £2.06m £2.21m £1.80m £1.98m
Other assets £787.21k £704.53k £796.80k £740.85k £787.99k
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total liabilities £697.82k £660.17k £710.41k £776.44k £920.60k

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 December 2023 25 September 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2023 25 September 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2022 31 July 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2022 31 July 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2021 27 September 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 27 September 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2020 20 September 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2020 20 September 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2019 08 October 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2019 08 October 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/11/1912 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/04/1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/04/1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/04/2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/2013 as amended on 27 Apr 2018 as amended on 02 Nov 2021

Charitable objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF SIGNALLING (WHICH SHALL MEAN THE WHOLE OF THE APPARATUS, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL OR OTHERWISE, METHODS, REGULATIONS AND PRINCIPLES WHEREBY THE MOVEMENT OF RAILWAY OR OTHER TRAFFIC IS CONTROLLED) BY THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH, THE COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL AND THE HOLDING OF CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND MEETINGS B) THE MAINTENANCE OF HIGH STANDARDS OF PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL CARE AMONGST THOSE WORKING WITHIN THE INDUSTRY AND PROMOTION OF IMPROVED SAFETY STANDARDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

NOT DEFINED

Contact information

Address:
1 BIRDCAGE WALK
WESTMINSTER
LONDON
UK
SW1H 9JJ
Phone:
02078081180
Email:
hq@irse.org
Website:

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