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Registered charity · London

British Society of Echocardiography

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.bsecho.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Society of Echocardiography
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£945k£870k
  • 2021£927k£782k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE EFFECTIVE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BYA) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND THE PROMOTION OF BEST PRACTICE IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN RELATION TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASE;B) PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR THE PROTECTION AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;C) PROVIDING OR FACILITATING TRAINING FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE PRACTICE OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY2) TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND CARRY ON STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH; WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

12
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 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

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

Other services 12Property 3Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m latest income
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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.8 in 2021

10 from 5 in 2021
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
1093808
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/11/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 NOV 2016 as amended on 19 Oct 2021
Companies House
Company number 04480121 · Active
Contact on the register
02080655794 · admin@bsecho.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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