BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

Registered charity 1093808 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH SCHOOL OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

To promote high standards in the practice of clinical echocardiography through training and accreditation of practitioners and representation of their views within the healthcare regulatory and delivery environments, for the benefit of patients

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.6m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £141,323 and total unrestricted funds of £844,641. The Trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate, representing around six months of general expenditure. The Board considers the charity to be in a strong position to continue its activities during the coming year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee earned between £80,000 - £89,999 during the year” — page 34

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee earned between £80,000 - £89,999 during the year” — page 34

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: four - six months of general expenditure (held: £772k)

“The Reserves Policy states the Society maintains free unrestricted reserves to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work; to maintain a minimum reserve level equivalent to four - six months of general expenditure” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Echocardiography and monitoring patients receiving dopamine agonist therapy for hyperprolactinaemia: A joint position statement of the British Society of Echocardiography, the British Heart Valve Society and the Society for Endocrinology - Steeds - 2019 - Cli onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 28/02/2019

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04480121

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Jo Sopala — Chief Executive (source)
Dan Augustine — President (source)
Wendy Gamlin — Honorary Secretary (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Alnylam — “Strategic annual partners Alnylam” (source page)
Bracco — “Annual partners Bracco” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

VAMVAKIDOU, Anastasia — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
O'DRISCOLL, Patrick — director, appointed 11/10/2025on trustee list
FERREIRA DE ANDRADE, Ivo — director, appointed 12/10/2024not on trustee list
RING, Liam, Dr — director, appointed 14/10/2023on trustee list
PATON, Maria — director, appointed 15/10/2022on trustee list
VICTOR, Kelly, Dr — director, appointed 15/10/2022on trustee list
BARKER, Caroline Mary — director, appointed 02/02/2022on trustee list
OXBOROUGH, David, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2021on trustee list
TOWNSEND, Catherine, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2021on trustee list
GAMLIN, Wendy — director, appointed 07/10/2020on trustee list
AUGUSTINE, Daniel, Dr — director, appointed 07/10/2020on trustee list
BENNETT, Sadie — director, appointed 07/10/2020on trustee list
ROBINSON, Shaun — director, appointed 09/11/2017on trustee list
SOPALA, Jo — secretary, appointed 26/11/2021

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£1.6m

Total spending

£1.4m

Cost of raising funds

£7k

Reserves (reported)

£845k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Caroline Barker
Dr Anastasia Vamvakidou
Dr Catherine Townsend
Dr Daniel Augustine
Dr David Oxborough
Dr Kelly Victor
Dr Liam Ring
Ivo Ferreira de Andrade
Maria Paton
Patrick O'Driscoll
Sadie Bennett
Shaun Robinson
Wendy Gamlin

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.6m	£1.4m
31/03/2024	£1.4m	£1.4m
31/03/2023	£1.2m	£1.1m
31/03/2022	£945k	£870k
31/03/2021	£927k	£782k

Common questions

Is BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £141,323 and total unrestricted funds of £844,641. The Trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate, representing around six months of general expenditure. The Board considers the charity to be in a strong position to continue its activities during the coming year. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 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	2	£145k
BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION	1	£1.7m

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESEARCH ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY.

RESEARCH ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY income £144k
THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.4m
THE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.1m
The Society for Cardiac Science and Technology LTD income £193k
BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING / BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ( BSCI / BSCCT) income £185k
THE SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PERFUSION SCIENTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £283k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY	£1.6m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	within	—	no doubt
RESEARCH ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FY2026	£144k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY FY2025	£3.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
The Society for Cardiac Science and Technology LTD FY2024	£193k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING / BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ( BSCI / BSCCT) FY2024	£185k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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