Cardiff Model Engineering Society

Analysis

Cardiff Model Engineering Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, environment/conservation/heritage and recreation, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Cardiff Model Engineering Society reported income of £116k and spending of £91k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £63k to £116k (+85%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Cardiff Model Engineering Society sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Musical Youth Company of Oxford (£116k), House of Imagination (£116k) and Chelmsford Young Generation Amateur Musical Society (£116k).