EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY

Registered charity 1093753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESVS

Activities to relieve sickness and to preserve and protect health by advancing for the public benefit the science and art and research into Vascular disease including (without limitation) vascular surgery.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£2.5m

Latest spending

£2.2m

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of €385,000 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds carried forward amounting to €2,117,267. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern and have identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations. However, the stated reserves policy target is €2,200,000 to €2,600,000, meaning current free reserves are below the lower bound of the trustees' desired range.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: more than €70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee (2023: one) within the group (not within the charity) received remuneration of more than €70,000.” — page 23

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee (2023: one) within the group (not within the charity) received remuneration of more than €70,000.” — page 23

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: between €2,200,000 and €2,600,000 (held: £2.1m)

“During the year the Trustees reviewed the level of free reserves that the Society should hold and concluded that an appropriate level would be between €2,200,000 and €2,600,000” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Administration services from subsidiary

“During the year European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited was invoiced €569,025 (2023: €568,732) and the charity was invoiced €56,759 (plus irrecoverable VAT) (2023: €40,000) by SASU ESVS France in respect of administration services and associated recharges.”

“During the previous year the charity made a subvention of €191,292 to European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited with no such payment in 2024.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Subvention to subsidiary

“During the year European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited was invoiced €569,025 (2023: €568,732) and the charity was invoiced €56,759 (plus irrecoverable VAT) (2023: €40,000) by SASU ESVS France in respect of administration services and associated recharges.”

“During the previous year the charity made a subvention of €191,292 to European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited with no such payment in 2024.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited, SASU ESVS France

“The charity has two active subsidiaries. European Vascular Surgery Trading Limited (EVSTL) manages a number of the Society's activities and in turn owns SASU ESVS France, which operates the Society’s administrative office.” — page 8

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Armando Mansilha — President (source)
Robert Hinchliffe — Secretary General (source)
Kak Khee Yeung — President Elect (source)
Pirkka Vikatmaa — Deputy President Elect (source)
Vincent Jongkind — Treasurer (source)
Jonathan Boyle — EJVES Editor-in-Chief (source)
Nadia Hakkenbrak — EVST Secretary (source)
Zoran Rancic — ESVS Academy Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£2.5m

Total spending

£2.2m

Cost of raising funds

£270k

Reserves (reported)

£1.8m

Employees

29

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Arindam Chaudhuri
Armando Mansilha
Jonathan Boyle
Kak Khee Yeung
Nadia Hakkenbrak
Pirkka Vikatmaa
Professor Robert Hinchliffe
Vincent Jongkind
Zoran Rancic

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Denmark · Finland · France · Germany · Greece · Italy · Luxembourg · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway · Poland · Portugal

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£2.5m	£2.2m
31/12/2023	£2.2m	£2.2m
31/12/2022	£2.4m	£2.3m
31/12/2021	£1.3m	£1.1m
31/12/2020	£1.0m	£989k

Common questions

Is EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of €385,000 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds carried forward amounting to €2,117,267. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern and have identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations. However, the stated reserves policy target is €2,200,000 to €2,600,000, meaning current free reserves are below the lower bound of the trustees' desired range. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the more than €70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
HEART RESEARCH UK	1	£85k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE VASCULAR SOCIETY.

THE VASCULAR SOCIETY income £590k
FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS income £2.7m
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDOCRINOLOGY income £3.1m
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS income £1.8m
THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY income £6.1m
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY	£2.5m	more than €70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE VASCULAR SOCIETY FY2025	£590k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIETY OF RETINA SPECIALISTS FY2024	£2.7m	€100,001 - €110,000	—	above	—	no doubt
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDOCRINOLOGY FY2025	£3.1m	—	4	above	—	no doubt
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS FY2025	£1.8m	€100,001 - €110,000	2	above	—	no doubt
THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY FY2025	£6.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.