Common questions about The Engineering Development Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Engineering Development Trust a good charity? +
The Engineering Development Trust scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Engineering Development Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Engineering Development Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1156066). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1156066&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Engineering Development Trust's charity number? +
The Engineering Development Trust's charity number is 1156066. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Engineering Development Trust's charity rating? +
The Engineering Development Trust scores 87 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Engineering Development Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Engineering Development Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Engineering Development Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of The Engineering Development Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Engineering Development Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 10% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Engineering Development Trust. The Engineering Development Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Engineering Development Trust receive? +
The Engineering Development Trust reported £2.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Engineering Development Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-06-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Engineering Development Trust based? +
The Engineering Development Trust's registered contact address is in St Albans (AL7 2AA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on education.
How much is The Engineering Development Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Engineering Development Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Engineering Development Trust's money come from? +
The Engineering Development Trust reported £2.2m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £1.4m (63%), donations and legacies £743k (35%), investments £44k (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Engineering Development Trust? +
The register records The Engineering Development Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Engineering Development Trust's trustees paid? +
The Engineering Development Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Engineering Development Trust registered as a charity? +
The Engineering Development Trust was entered on the register on 7 March 2014. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08879288).
How does CharityCompare score The Engineering Development Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Engineering Development Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Engineering Development Trust's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.