INSTITUTE OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  -20.5%

  £1,038,660 → £825,273

• Cash

  +7.7%

  £340,724 → £366,828

• Net assets

  -30.8%

  £519,998 → £359,713

• Employees

  +20%

  5 → 6

  highest in 6 filed years

• Profit before tax

  -235.8%

  £122,616 → -£166,530

• Wages

  +5.2%

  £281,135 → £295,809

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

1. INSTITUTE OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS 2009-10-20 → present
2. ERGONOMICS SOCIETY(THE) 1985-06-18 → 2009-10-20

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Ormerod Rutter Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “In April, we launched our new Strategy at the EHF2024 conference held in Kenilworth.”
• “We celebrated our 75th anniversary and 10 years of our Royal Charter in 2024, and for the first time in over 5 years, we have seen a significant rise in membership numbers taking us over the 2,000-member mark.”
• “Behind the scenes, we have continued our programme of operational improvements including the completion of our first external audit, retaining our ISO9001 certification and a comprehensive review of our Professional Competency Checklist (PCC).”
• “In November, we presented a new member engagement strategy to our Council of trustees which included proposed enhancements to our member value proposition including an ambassador programme, website improvements and changes to our member networking groups and regular meet-ups.”
• “We expanded our suite of professional development online courses in 2024 and now have 19 course available on topics ranging from workload analysis to fatigue in healthcare and an introduction to bowtie analysis.”
• “We released two new publications in 2024. A guide on Integrating Human-Centred AI in Clinical Practice was published in December; by year end, the guide had been downloaded just over 500 times.”
• “CIEHF hosted seven webinars in 2024, with a total of 1342 registrations, on a range of topics and sectors.”
• “Our flagship event is our annual conference. EHF 2024 took place in April, and we had a record attendance for the second year running.”
• “At the end of August, we participated in the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) 2024 Conference in Jeju, Korea.”
• “The Council of Trustees has approved the set-up of a trading company for IEA2027, and this will be set up as a Community Interest Company in 2025.”
• “We celebrated our 75th anniversary with the Think Human exhibition at the Museum of Making in Derby developed in partnership with Loughborough University and the Museum of Making.”
• “We retained our ISO 9001 certification in June 2024 and have continued our programme of operational improvements including re-establishing a risk register and process for regular review of risks by the trustees.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

20

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.