ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY

Registered charity 1135699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MEMBERSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER AND BENIGN BREAST DISEASE. THE ASSOCIATION ORGANISES EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, PRODUCES GUIDELINES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS, PROMOTES NATIONAL AUDITS AND TRIALS AND UPDATES ITS MEMBERS AND OTHERS ON CHANGES IN CURRENT PRACTICE AND OTHER RELEVANT NEWS

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £158,295 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by increased staff costs and grant awards. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £460,705, which exceeds the stated policy target of holding up to £400,000 in reserve. The auditor confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy Davies — Chief Operating Officer (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): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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

• Carol-Ann Courtney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henry James Cain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isabella Carmen Freda Karat
• Kathryn Ann Keeley
• Kathryn Susan Ellis
• Polly Megan King
• Prof Lynda Wyld
• Professor Cliona Clare Kirwan
• Raghavan Vidya
• Ruth Ann Reed James
• Sarah Elizabeth Downey
• Steven Thrush · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sue Kim Down
• Tracey Elizabeth Irvine
• Yazan Adnan Jadallah Masannat

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BASO-THE ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER SURGERY income £215k
• UK BREAST CANCER GROUP (UKBCG) income £347k
• BREAST CANCER UK LIMITED income £2.1m
• ASSOCIATION OF CANCER PHYSICIANS income £101k
• BREAST CANCER KENT income £142k
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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