THE BRITISH MEDICAL ULTRASOUND SOCIETY

Registered charity 289541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B M U S

BMUS works to advance the science and application of ultrasound in medicine, and to provide education, guidance and information for its members and the public.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ULTRASONICS AS APPLIED IN MEDICINE AND TH MAINTENANCE OF HIGH STANDARD IN THESE FIELDS. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SAID SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOTY AND ALLIED SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC IN THESE FIELDS. 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN THE SAID SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLICATION OF THE RUSULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £30,781 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total incoming resources of £634,765 against total expenditure of £607,408. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £493,327, which exceeds the stated minimum policy target of £300,000 required to meet operational needs. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01794511 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MCLAUGHLAN, James Ross, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GANGI, Anmol Mohsin, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• STOUT, Morag Jean — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• JARMAN, Robert David, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• VERMA, Prashant Kishore, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• LEE, Andrew — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• REEVE, Ruth — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• MOORE, Stephen — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• KRAFT, Jeannette Kathrin, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• CANTIN, Peter, Dr — director, appointed 01/03/2020on trustee list
• KIRKPATRICK, Catherine Louise — director, appointed 01/01/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Lee
• Catherine Louise Kirkpatrick
• Colin Patrick Griffin
• Dr Anmol Mohsin Gangi
• Dr James Ross McLaughlan
• Dr Jeannette Kathrin Kraft
• Dr Peter Cantin
• Dr Prashant Kishore Verma
• Dr Robert David Jarman
• Morag Jean Stout
• Ruth Reeve
• Stephen Moore

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY.

• BRITISH NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY income £625k
• BRITISH MEDICAL LASER ASSOCIATION income £49k
• UK FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION income £80k
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUDIOLOGY income £130k
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY income £1.6m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL NURSES income £531k

Side by side with its peers

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