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

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE FOLLOWING: 4.1 TO ADVANCE THE PRACTICE OF BREAST SURGERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND 4.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN RELATION TO BREAST CONDITIONS AND BREAST SURGERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Reserves policy: up to £400,000 in reserve, with an additional £100,000 being available to fund suitable projects (reserves figure: £461k)

“The reserves policy is reviewed annually and has been changed to state that the ABS should hold up to £400,000 in reserve, with an additional £100,000 being available to fund suitable projects.” — page 9

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£90,001–£100,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£90,001–£100,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 07207053 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

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.

KING, Polly Megan — director, appointed 08/06/2026on trustee list
KEELEY, Kathryn Ann — director, appointed 08/06/2026on trustee list
CAIN, Henry James — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
JAMES, Ruth Ann Reed — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
COURTNEY, Carol-Ann — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
KARAT, Isabella Carmen Freda — director, appointed 13/05/2024on trustee list
ELLIS, Kathryn Susan — director, appointed 13/05/2024on trustee list
KIRWAN, Cliona Clare, Professor — director, appointed 13/05/2024on trustee list
VIDYA, Raghavan — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
THRUSH, Steven — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
MASANNAT, Yazan Adnan Jadallah — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
DOWN, Sue Kim — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
IRVINE, Tracey Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
WYLD, Lynda, Prof — director, appointed 17/05/2021on trustee list
DOWNEY, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.4m

Reserves (reported)

£461k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.3m	£1.4m
31/12/2024	£1.1m	£1.1m
31/12/2023	£964k	£984k
31/12/2022	£946k	£789k
31/12/2021	£497k	£397k

Common questions

Is ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Edmund Carr LLP.

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
BJU INTERNATIONAL	1	£5k
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATION	1	£3k
FUSION21 FOUNDATION	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k
BASO-THE ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER SURGERY income £215k
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED income £2.4m
THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £281k
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ENDOCRINE AND THYROID SURGEONS income £232k
BREAST CANCER SUPPORT income £244k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY	£1.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FY2025	£161k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BASO-THE ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER SURGERY FY2025	£215k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED FY2025	£2.4m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY FY2026	£281k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF ENDOCRINE AND THYROID SURGEONS FY2025	£232k	—	—	above	—	no doubt

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