The Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 64% 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.

The register data used for this profile lists The Institution of Civil Engineers as a registered charity (charity number 210252). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=210252&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.

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The Institution of Civil Engineers scores 82 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Institution of Civil Engineers. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 64% of The Institution of Civil Engineers'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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 36% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 36% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Institution of Civil Engineers. The Institution of Civil Engineers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 83 employees paid more than £60,000, including 19 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

The Institution of Civil Engineers reported £43m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-06-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

The Institution of Civil Engineers's registered contact address is in London (SW1P 3AA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Scotland, Hong Kong, Australia, with a focus on education.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Institution of Civil Engineers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 83 employees paid more than £60,000, including 19 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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.

The Institution of Civil Engineers reported £43m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £21m (50%), charitable activities £20m (45%), investments £1m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £37k.

The register records The Institution of Civil Engineers 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.

The Institution of Civil Engineers's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.

The Institution of Civil Engineers was entered on the register on 4 March 1963.

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Institution of Civil Engineers'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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Institution of Civil Engineers's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.