Common questions about The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund a good charity? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 84% 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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund as a registered charity (charity number 208925). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=208925&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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's charity number? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's charity number is 208925. 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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's charity rating? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund 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.
Does The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund. 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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 84% of The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund'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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 16% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 26% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund. The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund receive? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund reported £1.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-02-05). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund based? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's registered contact address is in Ipswich (IP28 7DE). It tells the regulator it operates in Canada, India, Lebanon, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's money come from? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund reported £1.6m total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £933k (59%), investments £607k (39%), charitable activities £23k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £743k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund? +
The register records The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund 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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's trustees paid? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund: Iet Connect; The Incorporated Benevolent Fund of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; The Institution of Electrical Engineers Benevolent Fund.
When was The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund registered as a charity? +
The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund was entered on the register on 22 September 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00441284).
How does CharityCompare score The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund'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 Institution of Engineering and Technology Benevolent Fund'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.