EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY

Registered charity 1122484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESPE

To promote the highest levels of knowledge, research, education and clinical practice of paediatric endocrinology and metabolism throughout the world.

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

Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of €130,865 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reflecting planned deficits associated with recruiting an in-house staff team. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at €5,691,690, which remains well in excess of the stated reserve policy target of €2,400,000 (reviewed to €2,900,000 for the following year).

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: JointEndo Limited
“In February 2024, the charitable company incorporated a limited company joint venture Jointendo Limited of 50% shareholding with the charitable company European Society of Endocrinology (Charity number 1123492). European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology paid annual congress expenditure on behalf of the joint venture totalling €103,020 (2024 –€208,618). Jointendo also committed to a gift aid donation of 50% of its profits to the charitable company totalling €1,204,068. At 31 December 2025, the joint venture owed the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology €1,204,068 (2024 €208,558). This balance is included within debtors due within one year.” — page 37
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£2.5m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~20.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (81% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Cameroon · Canada · Chile · China · Costa Rica · Croatia

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.4m£1.5m
31/12/2024£3.1m£3.2m
31/12/2023£3.1m£2.8m
31/12/2022£337k£650k
31/12/2021£2.6m£1.4m

Common questions

Is EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of €130,865 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reflecting planned deficits associated with recruiting an in-house staff team. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at €5,691,690, which remains well in excess of the stated reserve policy target of €2,400,000 (reviewed to €2,900,000 for the following year). Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY£1.4m—0unclear—no doubt
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDOCRINOLOGY FY2025£3.1m—4above—no doubt
EUROPEAN ORTHODONTIC SOCIETY FY2024£1.6m—0above—no doubt
SOCIETY FOR ENDOCRINOLOGY FY2024£5.6m——unclear—no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION FY2025£287k—0unclear—no doubt
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT DIABETES FY2024£1.2m—0above—material uncertainty

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