THE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Registered charity 1113536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To facilitate scientific communication within the speciality, enhance quality of delivery of care and improve the standard of education and training of cardiothoracic surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £258,393, resulting in free reserves of £258,050 after deducting fixed assets. The charity reports a total surplus for the year of £5,511, driven by strong income from its annual meeting and other charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Enoch Akowuah — President-Elect (source)
• Sunil Bhudia — Meeting Secretary (source)
• Mark Jones — Honorary Treasurer (source)
• Sri Rathinam — Communication Secretary (source)
• Rana Sayeed — 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aman Singh Coonar
• Douglas West
• Enoch Francis Akowuah
• Espeed Khoshbin
• Ghaith Qsous
• Indu Deglurkar
• James Mark Jones
• Justin Nowell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Attilio Andrea Lotto
• Professor Karen Christina Redmond
• Rushmi Purmessur
• Stephen Schueler
• Sunil Kishore Bhudia
• Tara Bartley

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY.

• THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY income £6.1m
• The Society for Cardiac Science and Technology LTD income £193k
• EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS income £1.8m
• THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.3m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY income £1.6m
• THE BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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