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Registered charity · London

European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Limited

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £19m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Algeria, Argentina, Australia and more
Website
www.escrs.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£19m£17m
  • 2023£16m£16m
  • 2022£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2021£6.7m£9.0m
  • 2020£4.3m£8.5m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF IMPLANT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY AND TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND RESEARCH RELATING THERETO AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF, (2) EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN THE FIELD OF INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANTATION AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

6y median 7y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5General Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 9Education 1Finance 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£19.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

13.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 27.0 in 2020

2 from 1 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1066532
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1ST FEBRUARY 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 SEP 2014 as amended on 08 Sep 2015
Companies House
Company number 03153785 · Active
Contact on the register
01730715212 · escrs@escrs.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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