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Women's Engineering Society

W E S

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1008913
Status
Registered
Registered
Feb. 27, 1992
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Not Defined

Address

Address
Women's Engineering Society
Futures Place
Kings Way
STEVENAGE
Hertfordshire
SG1 2UA

Contact

Activities

Promotes education, training & practice of engineering among women. Increases public awareness of women in engineering. Forum for the exchange of opinions for women with interests in engineering. Sustains contacts with women engineers on career breaks & facilitates their return to paid employment. Ensures voice of women engineers is heard in Government & policy-making institutions.

Objects: The objects for which the Society is established are:(A) to promote the education of women in engineering sciences and other skills, the better to fit women for the practice of engineering;(B) to advance the education of the public concerning the study and practice of engineering among women; and(C) to relieve poverty amongst women who are or have been professional or technician engineers or technologists in allied sciences or educated in science or technology or in the art and techniques of engineering and allied sciences or in other disciplines considered by the Directors to be complementary, their dependants and (if they are deceased) their former dependants.

Classification

How
Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Human Resources, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who
Children/young People, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
Northern Ireland, Scotland
Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees Accounts
March 31, 2025 £569,174 £704,505 £337,057 6 PDF
March 31, 2024 £689,012 £543,496 £442,525 9 PDF
March 31, 2023 £511,549 £482,881 £298,009 8 PDF
March 31, 2022 £423,909 £372,020 PDF
March 31, 2021 £311,474 £317,352 PDF

Trustees

Name Appointed
Dr Katherine Critchley (Chair) Oct. 19, 2019
Alysha Ratansi Oct. 26, 2024
Aniela Foster-Turner March 22, 2023
Ann Donaghey Nov. 8, 2025
Caitlin McCall Oct. 26, 2024
Claire Riley Nov. 8, 2025
David Pooley March 16, 2026
Dr Chika Judith Abolle-Okoyeagu Oct. 26, 2024
Laura Shrieves Oct. 27, 2023
Paula McMahon Oct. 27, 2023
Sarah Haslam MBE Oct. 29, 2022
Susan McDonald Oct. 26, 2024