Registered charity · Bristol

European Society of Thoracic Surgeons

European Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a registered charity (number 1172020) based in Bristol, governed by 13 trustees. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Ests (Charity Commission)

13 trustees
Income £1.8m (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: Throughout England And Wales, Albania, Andorra, Austria and more
Website: www.ests.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Registered: 2017

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.8m£1.4m
2024£2.0m£1.8m
2023£1.8m£1.5m

Earlier years

2022£816k£449k
2021£528k£462k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE BY THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THORACIC SURGERY AND RELATED MEDICAL SUBJECTS.

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

3.2y median 1y

average tenure

14y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

Dr Servet Bolukbas since 2023

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.

Professional services 8Education 1Other services 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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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£1.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

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.

18.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 29.6 in 2021

2 from 1 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.

16 days

Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1172020
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 DEC 2016 as amended on 20 Jun 2022 as amended on 27 May 2024
Companies House: Company number 10523525 · Active
Contact on the register: 07756 784603 · DSNOWDON@ESTS.ORG.UK
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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