BRITISH ELBOW & SHOULDER SOCIETY

Registered charity 1191220 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BESS

We provide education and research opportunities to shoulder and elbow surgeons and physiotherapists so that we can promote best practice and improve patient care. We provide patient resources for conditions relating to shoulder and elbow surgery and rehabilitation. We operate throughout the UK.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY CARE OF PATIENTS REQUIRING SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGERY IN THE UK THROUGH PROMOTING BEST PRACTICE;B) PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH RELATING TO SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGERY AND ALLIED FIELDS BY PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR PRESENTATION AND DISSEMINATION OF SUCH RESEARCH AND BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS FOR SUCH RESEARCH;C) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGERY AND ALLIED FIELDS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £65,636 for the year ended 31 March 2026, bringing total unrestricted funds to £880,634. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to cover approximately six months of operational expenditure and future commitments, with no material uncertainties regarding financial viability. The charity has no requirement for external funding and maintains adequate cash reserves to continue in operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMOL ASHOK TAMBE
• Ananth Ebinesan
• Aparna Viswanath
• Harvinder Pal Singh
• Helen Tunnicliffe
• Jaime Jose Candal-Couto
• Joideep Phadnis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katy Boland
• Leanne Dupley
• Mark Andrew Austen Crowther
• Mark Falworth
• Professor Adam Watts
• Rajesh Nanda
• Stephen Drew
• Vijay Bhalaik

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

Operates in: 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 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SURGERY OF THE KNEE.

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SURGERY OF THE KNEE income £150k
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND income £1.3m
• BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION income £3.2m
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY income £5.4m
• BRITISH HIP SOCIETY income £643k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF HAND THERAPISTS LIMITED income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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