EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1071823 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMF, THE EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP

Support of Christian missionaries and churches throughout Europe. Assisting Christian literature work in Europe. Providing training in Theological studies.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE AND TO DO SO IN CO-OPERATION WITH ALL OTHER EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WHO ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE DOCTRINES SET OUT IN THE SCHEDULE; TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES SET OUT IN THE SCHEDULE THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, TRAINING, LECTURES, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Area of benefit: EUROPE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harborough, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £444,075 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total incoming resources. Despite this deficit, the trustees report free unrestricted reserves of £2,524,407, which they consider sufficient to meet immediate obligations and continue activities. The trustees acknowledge a planned large budget deficit for 2026 as a significant risk but maintain that adequate resources exist for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cunningtons & Co Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Darren Lee Moore · trustee of 2 other charities
• Frances Rachel Barker · trustee of 2 other charities
• Graham Hilton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth James Hanna
• Leon Coates
• NIGEL DAVID POUNTNEY
• Rev DANIEL MARK GRIMWADE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev GARETH NORMAN BURKE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev STEPHEN QUINTON

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Belgium · Bulgaria · Czech Republic · Denmark · France · Germany · Greece · Ireland · Italy · Macedonia · Moldova · Northern Ireland

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev GARETH NORMAN BURKE — trustee here and at THE BIDDESTONE TRUST

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (BRITAIN).

• EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (BRITAIN) income £1.1m
• CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN MISSION income £33k
• THE REDEEMED EVANGELICAL MISSION income £52k
• THE MINSTER FELLOWSHIP income £191k
• THE EAST AFRICAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY income £46k
• THE PARTNERSHIP TRUST income £206k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.