**REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 01959979 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 327121**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND**
**UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **FOR**
**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Report of the Trustees**|1|to|3|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||4||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||5||
|**Balance Sheet**|6|to|7|
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|8|to|12|
|**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**|13|to|14|
**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The charity's objective and principal activity is to provide a forum for engineers, technicians and materials specialists to discuss and assess technological developments and their practical application to measurement techniques and structural integrity and noise, vibration and human characteristics of components, sub assemblies and complete products.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the 2006 Charities Act to have due regard to guidance published by the Charity Commission.
The Society provides a forum for the interchange of ideas and information for practising engineers and engineering researchers, as well as a journal containing technical papers, topical discussion pieces and news, and regular events.
## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Summary of Main Achievements During The Year**
It is with great sadness that the Directors record in the 2025 Annual Report the tragic and untimely death of our President, Professor Rod Smith. Rod lost his life whilst walking in the Lake District on his 77th birthday, 26 December 2024. The EIS was represented at the memorial service held in Oxford to celebrate his life, innumerable achievements and impact on the lives of so many engineers and scientists.
The Directors are pleased to report that the EIS has continued to strengthen its financial position whilst delivering a broad range of charitable and commercial activities. Elsewhere in the report are the details of the income and expenditure and the balance sheet. It is worth highlighting the increase in total funds from £178,719 to £185,873 compared the 2023/24 financial year which is due to our highly successful international conference, Fatigue 2024. It should also be noted that, due to the availability of dates to run our Instrumentation, Analysis and Testing Exhibition at Silverstone, the 2025 event fell outside this reporting period.
As ever, we are extremely grateful to all of our Corporate Members for their support throughout the year and we appreciate the time that their staff spend on EIS activities. The groups, supported by our Marketing & Events Manager, continue a variety of seminars, webinars and other activities, as recorded in Note 12 of this report. Particularly noteworthy is the highly successful tyre testing seminar that we held at HORIBA MIRA. This proved to be a very popular topic and the event was enhanced by the kind offer of HORIBA MIRA to visit their Driving Simulator Centre. One of the highlights of the year was the Fatigue 2024 conference at Jesus College Cambridge. This was our largest ever international conference and was very well received by the delegates, presenters and corporate sponsors. Included in the conference was the annual Peter Watson Prize competition which attracted record numbers and demonstrated the quality and breadth of work being carried out by young engineers.
The Directors took the decision to broaden our support for extra-curricular engineering projects in UK Universities by running a competitive bidding process for our sponsorship. Such was the quality of the project bids that we are sponsoring students at Sheffield, Leeds and Glasgow Universities. We look forward to hearing of their successes and building relationships with them.
Within the Society, we are delighted to welcome Niall Smyth of Coventry University as chair of the Durability and Fatigue Group. We are very grateful to Peter Bailey for his long service as chair of this group and pleased that Peter will remain an active member.
The Directors continue to monitor the Society's structures, plans and financial commitments closely. Our strong financial reserves enable us to deliver a wide range of charitable and commercial activities and allow us to explore and develop new events.
In summary, the EIS has had a highly successful year, both in terms of meeting its charitable aims and delivering events, and we look forward continued success in the future.
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial position**
The Society's financial position is recorded in detail in this Annual Report Our capital reserves have allowed us to maintain the society's charitable activities through this difficult period. In summary, our current income and reserves are sufficient to maintain our planned activities. It is the Trustees' intention to maintain this position whilst growing the numbers of engineers who engage with the Society as members, delegates and presenters.
## **Reserves policy**
The Trustees have ensured that all cash reserves, apart from those required for the day to day operation of the company, are held in an interest bearing account, and that the company aims to have a free reserve to cover costs associated with any future events.
Our financial strategy of building reserves provides the Society with the resilience to promote engineering to young people and support them in their professional development during the politically and financially uncertain times ahead.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
Directors are a subset of Trustees. Trustees are all members of the council and their nomination must be approved by council members. They must be nominated and seconded by the membership.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Registered Company number**
01959979 (England and Wales)
## **Registered Charity number**
327121
## **Registered office**
c/o Hollis and Co 35 Wilkinson Street Sheffield S10 2GB
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **Trustees**
E R Cawte G Hemmings Dr J R Yates (Chair) Dr P Bailey D Ensor D Fish Dr S Jeffs Dr A O'Neill P Roberts S Payne K Vickers J Shenton M Cockrill Dr H Cockings C Bligh A E Chahardehi N Smyth (appointed 8/5/25)
All elected Council members of the Society are trustees of the Society. Of the trustees, the following are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006:-
J R Yates G Hemmings E R Cawte P Bailey A T O'Neill D G Fish J Shenton C Bligh
## **Company Secretary**
P Roberts
## **Independent Examiner**
Hollis and Co Limited Chartered Accountants 35 Wilkinson Street Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2GB
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 26 June 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
Dr J R Yates (Chair) - Trustee
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Engineering Integrity Society ('the Company')**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Peter Hollis
Hollis and Co Limited Chartered Accountants 35 Wilkinson Street Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2GB
8 July 2025
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
**Charitable activities**
Conferences
126,906
Membership
21,887
Investment income
2
2,921
Other income
656
**Total**
152,370
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
Conferences
103,050
Membership
4,254
Other
37,912
**Total**
145,216
**NET INCOME**
7,154
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
178,719
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
185,873|Restricted
fund
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2025
Total
funds
£
126,906
21,887
2,921
656
152,370
103,050
4,254
37,912
145,216
7,154
178,719
185,873|2024
Total
funds
£
90,312
23,735
2,618
1,282|
|---|---|---|---|
||||117,947|
||||56,616
-
37,979|
||||94,595|
||||23,352
155,367|
||||178,719|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **BALANCE SHEET 31 MARCH 2025**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible assets
7
693
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
8
39,196
Cash at bank
217,517
256,713
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
9
(71,533)
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
185,180
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
185,873
**NET ASSETS**
185,873
**FUNDS**
10
Unrestricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Restricted
fund
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2025
Total
funds
£
693
39,196
217,517
256,713
(71,533)
185,180
185,873
185,873
185,873
185,873|2024
Total
funds
£
933
20,245
264,748
284,993
(107,207)
177,786
178,719
178,719
178,719
178,719|
|---|---|---|---|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2025.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
## The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **BALANCE SHEET - continued 31 MARCH 2025**
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 26 June 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:
J R Yates (Chair) - Trustee
D Fish - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Allocation and apportionment of costs**
Expenditure on management and administration of the charity includes all expenditure not directly related to the charitable activity and related activities. This includes cost of office services, audit and professional fees.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Office equipment - 20% on cost Computer equipment - 25% on cost
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
## **2. INVESTMENT INCOME**
||2025|2024|
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|Interest receivable|2,921|2,618|
continued...
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **3. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):
||2025|2024|
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|Depreciation - owned assets|313|965|
## **4. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.
## **Trustees' expenses**
Expenses totalling £nil (2024 £nil) were reimbursed to officers of the Society during the year. These officers comprise trustees and committee members who have retired from active employment but remain active as committee members.
## **5. STAFF COSTS**
The Society does not employ any staff.
An individual, under a contract for services, managed administration on a day to day basis:. The costs, including reimbursement of expenses paid on behalf of the Society, were as follows
2025 2024 £ £ Marketing and Event Services costs for the year 41,173 35,006 (including administration and conference costs)
Expense reimbursement 5,672 5,749
## **6. INDEMNITY INSURANCE**
The Society has taken out insurance to indemnify officers and trustees against any potential neglect or default for an annual limit of £500,000, including costs and expenses, which is renewed on a rolling basis each year on 9 June.
continued...
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **7. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
|Office
equipment
£
**COST**
At 1 April 2024
1,803
Additions
99
Disposals
(44)
At 31 March 2025
1,858
**DEPRECIATION**
At 1 April 2024
957
Charge for year
270
Eliminated on disposal
(18)
At 31 March 2025
1,209
**NET BOOK VALUE**
At 31 March 2025
649
At 31 March 2024
846
**8.**
**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Trade debtors
Other debtors
**9.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Trade creditors
VAT
Accrued expenses
Deferred income
Debtor credit balances|Computer
equipment
£
3,939
-
-
3,939
3,852
43
-
3,895
44
87
2025
£
38,828
368
39,196
2025
£
4,782
230
4,880
61,641
-
71,533||
|---|---|---|
||||
continued...
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **10. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
|At 1/4/24
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
178,719
**TOTAL FUNDS**
178,719
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
resources
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
152,370
**TOTAL FUNDS**
152,370
**Comparatives for movement in funds**
At 1/4/23
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
155,367
**TOTAL FUNDS**
155,367
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
resources
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
117,947
**TOTAL FUNDS**
117,947|Net
movement
At
in funds
31/3/25
£
£
7,154
185,873
7,154
185,873
Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(145,216)
7,154
(145,216)
7,154
Net
movement
At
in funds
31/3/24
£
£
23,352
178,719
23,352
178,719
Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(94,595)
23,352
(94,595)
23,352|
|---|---|
continued...
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **10. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|At 1/4/23
£
155,367
155,367|Net
movement
in funds
£
30,506
30,506|At
31/3/25
£
185,873
185,873|
|---|---|---|---|
A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Incoming
resources
£
270,317
270,317|Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(239,811)
30,506
(239,811)
30,506|
|---|---|---|
## **11. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **12. CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS**
|Title|Gross
Income|Expenses
Net Income|Expenses
Net Income|
|---|---|---|---|
||£|£|£|
|Fatigue 2024 Conference
19-21.06.2024|120,372.46|84,082.20|36,290.26|
|||||
|Seminar: Data Collection
15.10.2024|2,728.75|3,135.25|(406.50)|
|||||
|Exhibition: Advanced Engineering Show
01.11.2024|0.00|1,704.81|(1,704.81)|
|||||
|Webinar: Maximising Insights into Data
14.11.2024|(10.00)|279.69|(289.69)|
|||||
|Exhibition: Student Insights
12.03.2025|300.00|2,990.77|(2,690.77)|
|||||
|Seminar: Tyre Testing
20.03.2025|3,515.00|1,708.35|1,806.65|
|||||
|Additional costs for prior year events|0.00|5,061.55|(5,061.55)|
|||||
|Young Engineers Seminars|0.00|12.88|(12.88)|
|||||
|Peter Watson Prize|0.00|631.25|(631.25)|
|||||
||126,906.21|99,606.75|27,299.46|
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**Investment income**
Interest receivable
**Charitable activities**
Conference income
Corporate membership
Personal membership
**Other income**
Publishers Licensing Service
**Total incoming resources**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Charitable activities**
Conference costs
Bad debts
EIS Journal
Archive storage costs
Sponsorship
Cancelled events
**Other**
Insurance
Telephone and data line
Postage and stationery
Marketing
Miscellaneous expenses
Computer consumables
Bank charges
iZettle costs
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets
**Support costs**
**Governance costs**
Accountancy fees
Marketing and Events Manager
Council/committee meetings|2025
£
2,921
126,906
21,600
287
148,793
656
152,370
99,607
(1,938)
5,907
440
3,071
-
107,087
3,685
383
195
3,485
5,593
131
173
32
291
13,968
3,376
20,568
217
24,161|2024
£
2,618
90,312
23,138
597|
|---|---|---|
|||114,047
1,282|
|||117,947
50,137
338
5,219
580
-
125|
|||56,399
3,501
484
874
4,263
4,940
449
240
262
965|
|||15,978
3,772
17,805
641|
|||22,218|
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**ENGINEERING INTEGRITY SOCIETY**
## **DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**|||
|---|---|---|
|Total resources expended
**Net income**|2025
£
145,216
7,154|2024
£|
|||94,595|
|||23,352|
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