THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGEONS
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-15 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+34.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£19M
+16.7% vs 2023
Employees
2
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
+1,095.4% highest in 6 filed years
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGEONS 1996-11-27 → present
- THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGEONS LIMITED 1996-02-01 → 1996-11-27
Net assets
6-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
6-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,289,528 | £4,153,086 | £6,688,627 | £11,829,924 | £15,516,694 | £18,217,658 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £1,584,605 | -£4,088,072 | -£2,350,035 | -£175,971 | -£176,779 | £1,759,649 | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | — | £58,219 | £2,732,953 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | — | £3,515,721 | £4,725,095 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | — | £16,941,770 | £19,278,433 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | £16,400,045 | £19,132,998 | |
| Equity | — | — | — | — | £16,400,045 | £19,132,998 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | — | £286,826 | £311,171 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | — | — | — | — | 0.4% | 15.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | — | 24.3% | 17.8% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | 1.16x | 1.48x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On this basis the Directors are confident that the group will continue in operational existence and that the financial statements should continue to be drawn up on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGEONS · parent
- ESCRS Trading Limited 1%
Significant events
- “The 28th ESCRS Winter Meeting took place in Frankfurt, Germany as an in-person event in February 2024 and was attended by over 1,500 delegates.”
- “The society held the 42nd Annual Congress of ESCRS as a hybrid (in-person and virtual) meeting in Barcelona in September 2024. The meeting was an enormous success and retained its position reached in 2022, as the largest ophthalmic conference in the world concerning visiting doctors. A total of over 15,900 delegates attended.”
- “In 2024, the society launched its programme focused on Building our Sustainable Society (BoSS), which addresses sustainability in a wider sense, incorporating diversity and inclusion.”
- “The third ESCRS iNovation Day, a one-day meeting which brings together clinical and business experts from across Europe and further afield, was held immediately before the Annual Congress in Barcelona.”
- “Three new Systematic Research Awards were made in 2024.”
- “One new Pioneer Award was agreed for VICTORIA (Validation of Interleukins and other Cytokines Together with OCT imaging for Rapid Infectious keratitis Assessment).”
- “The Research Committee also established a new award in 2024, the Sustainability Research Award (SURE Award), with a maximum value of €10,000 per award.”
- “ESCRS makes direct donations each year to selected charities. 2024 was the second year of three major projects funded by ESCRS which run from 2023 to 2025.”
- “A new project with the Cape Town University Eye Health Institute (CEHI) was launched in 2024, receiving €90k of funding over 12 months.”
- “The society has also designated a total of €150k from its own reserves for the same purpose, of which €92k remains available to spend.”
- “Following a tender process, Cazenove was appointed as the society's investment manager in March 2024. The transfer of assets from the previous investment managers to Cazenove was completed during the year.”
- “in early 2024 agreed an extension to the agreement with its outsourced services provider which provides certainty over ongoing fixed costs for several years.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BATESON, John Edward Gilder | Director | 2018-09-20 | Dec 1948 | British |
| BELLUCCI, Roberto | Director | 2019-02-14 | Sep 1952 | Italian |
| EMERSON, Rebecca Ann | Director | 2025-12-31 | Sep 1967 | British |
| GUELL, Jose | Director | 2019-02-14 | Sep 1960 | Spanish |
| STAFFELDT, Till | Director | 2019-05-17 | Apr 1966 | German |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELLUCCI, Roberto | Secretary | 2009-02-05 | 2014-08-01 |
| FINDL, Oliver, Professor | Secretary | 2014-08-01 | 2024-02-07 |
| GUELL VILLANUEVA, Jose, Dr | Secretary | 2004-01-01 | 2014-07-09 |
| STENEVI, Ulf | Secretary | 1996-02-01 | 1998-12-31 |
| TASSIGNON, Marie Jose, Prof | Secretary | 1999-01-01 | 2003-12-31 |
| BARRY, Peter, Dr | Director | 2015-10-28 | 2016-05-26 |
| CONDON, Patrick Ian | Director | 1996-02-01 | 1999-02-08 |
| NUIJTS, Rudy Matheus Marie Antonius | Director | 2016-09-08 | 2019-01-01 |
| ROSEN, Emanuel Saul | Director | 1996-10-08 | 2020-09-01 |
| ROSEN, Paul | Director | 2010-09-03 | 2025-12-31 |
| SOURDILLE, Phillippe, Dr | Director | 1996-02-01 | 2004-09-18 |
| STENEVI, Ulf, Prof | Director | 2004-09-18 | 2019-02-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 97 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-20 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-07 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-02-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type medium | |
| 2021-03-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+17.4%
£15,516,694 £18,217,658
highest in 6 filed years
-
Cash
+34.4%
£3,515,721 £4,725,095
-
Net assets
+16.7%
£16,400,045 £19,132,998
-
Employees
0%
2 2
-
Profit before tax
+1,095.4%
-£176,779 £1,759,649
highest in 6 filed years
-
Wages
+8.5%
£286,826 £311,171
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers