THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

Registered charity 1140274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EACTS

To advance education in the field of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. To promote for public benefit research into Thoracic Physiology, Pathology and Therapy and to correlate and disseminate the useful results thereof

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a modest operating surplus of €205,040 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of €7,268,962. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of €7,440,672 are considered sufficient to meet future commitments and are in line with the stated reserves policy. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due, with no material uncertainties related to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• Hendrik Jan Ankersmit elected onto Council of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery meduniwien.ac.at · 17/12/2021

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07401765

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.

• QUINTANA, Eduard, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• BORGER, Michael, Professor Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• FÄRBER, Gloria, Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2025not on trustee list
• GALLETTI, Lorenzo, Associate Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• ZANCANARO, Edoardo Rizzieri, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• VIDA, Vladimiro, Professor Dr — director, appointed 30/05/2025on trustee list
• BOSTANCI, Korkut, Professor — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• GAUDINO, Mario, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• LITLE, Virginia, Dr — director, appointed 03/04/2024on trustee list
• SCHOENHOFF, Florian Sebastian, Professor — director, appointed 06/10/2023on trustee list
• BAVARIA, Joseph, Dr — director, appointed 15/10/2021on trustee list
• MYERS, Patrick, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2020on trustee list
• SADABA, Rafael — director, appointed 03/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~39.7 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 (79% 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: 58.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Associate Professor Lorenzo Galletti
• Dr Edoardo Rizzieri Zancanaro
• Dr Eduard Quintana
• Dr Florian Schoenhoff
• Dr Joseph Bavaria
• Dr Patrick Myers
• Dr Rafael Sadaba
• Dr Vladimiro Vida
• Dr Volkmar Falk
• Korkut Bostanci
• Mario Gaudino
• Professor Dr Michael Borger
• Professor Gloria Farber
• Virginia Litle

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

Operates in: Austria · Belgium · Czech Republic · Denmark · France · Germany · Italy · Netherlands · Poland · Portugal · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS.

• EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS income £1.8m
• THE SOCIETY FOR CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.1m
• The Society for Cardiac Science and Technology LTD income £193k
• THE BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR SOCIETY income £3.4m
• THE SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PERFUSION SCIENTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £283k
• BRITISH THORACIC ONCOLOGY GROUP income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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