The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Analysis

The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Windsor. It was registered in February 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07401765). It says it makes grants to individuals, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery reported income of £6.1m and spending of £5.8m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £2.8m to £6.1m (+117%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (£6.1m), The Saviour Trust (£6.1m) and Headway - the Brain Injury Association (£6.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 79%, charitable activities 12% and investments 9.1%. Charitable activities took 39% of spending and raising funds 61%. Grants to other organisations totalled £38k. Reserves of £19.3m would cover about 40 months of spending at that rate. It employed 25 people.