Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rugby. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund reported income of £82k and spending of £207k, spending 253% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £135k to £82k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 157% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Albion United Reformed Church Charity (£82k), Gateway Freedom Church, Harlow (£82k) and Wessex Close Christian Fellowship (£82k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.