BRITISH SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Auditor

Sayer Vincent LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The Trustees have reviewed financial forecasts for a period of at least 12 months from accounts approval date with assumptions of both good and pessimistic scenarios; they have considered possible uncertainties, as well as potential risks and their mitigating factors; further to this they conclude the charity remains a going concern.”

Significant events

• “In July 2024, the Trustees agreed a three year strategy.”
• “The Trustees agreed to a deficit budget in 2024/25 to ensure we could meet the increasing demands on core activities and address the strategic priorities above, whilst maintaining costs to members at a reasonable level.”
• “Membership at the end of the year reached 5,413, an increase of 387, 8% up on the previous year.”
• “The fellowship programme awarded twenty fellowships this year.”
• “Honorary Fellowships were awarded to Dr Victoria Delgado and Miss Jane Lynch, who both inspired and educated our audience at BSEcho 2024 as our International and Invited speakers. Jane's outstanding contribution... was further recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Rick Steeds was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.”
• “Overall delegate numbers have still increased by 23% year on year.”
• “The ECHO Journal... was awarded an Impact Factor (IF) of 3.2.”
• “The Membership Resources Committee has continued to build the Resource Hub, which now consists of a collection of 120 insightful resources.”
• “Readership of our monthly eNewsletter has grown from 47% to 51% year on year, with an average click rate of nearly 18%. Our LinkedIn channel has seen significant growth, with over 3,000 new followers for a total of 13,636.”
• “The income from accreditation during the year was £342k (2024: £258k) with direct costs of £307k (2024: £273k) resulting in a surplus of £35k (2023: small loss of £15k).”
• “A new phase of the BSE-Kairos Leadership Academy programme was launched in March 2024.”
• “Launched a Research and Audit eNewsletter and Secured two BHFCRC awards for research.”
• “We commissioned an independent report to establish an overview of the current use of AI.”
• “The Society will continue to collaborate with other organisations to ensure it can have the broadest impact on behalf of its members and we continue to petition for a Royal Charter.”
• “The Statement of Financial Activities show a surplus for the year of £141k (2024 £0k) before a gain on investments. The total unrestricted funds at the year end, stand at £845K (2024 £701k).”
• “Trustees have again resolved to designate £45k of the Society's unrestricted Reserves as follows: £20k towards travel bursaries for members to attend the October 2025 Annual Meeting, and £25k towards costs associated with our application for Royal College status.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +15.6%

  £1,337,528 → £1,546,631

• Cash

  +27.8%

  £424,419 → £542,321

• Net assets

  +20.3%

  £701,903 → £844,641

• Employees

  0%

  10 → 10

• Profit before tax

  +1,602.7%

  £8,383 → £142,738

• Wages

  +13.8%

  £388,487 → £442,062

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