GROUP FOR EDUCATION IN MUSEUMS

Registered charity 1090995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

GEM promotes social, community and personal development through accessible, relevant and enjoyable heritage learning. GEM advocates the benefits of heritage learning and supports heritage organisations in developing progressive and inclusive learning. GEM's conferences, training events, email forums, website and publications encourage best professional practice.

Objects

a) to promote and advance education, especially museum and heritage education, for the public benefit in particular by the provision of training and sharing of resources in museum and heritage education.(b) to undertake promote or assist in promoting research into all aspects of museum and heritage education and to disseminate the useful result of such research for the benefit of the public.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a stable financial position with total income of £519,529, though it reported a net deficit of £37,219 for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £190,212, which the trustees consider to be above their policy target of four to six months' expenditure. The going concern basis was adopted as the trustees have a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE MARCUSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Edger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ashleigh Hibbins
• Ashley Almeida
• Benjamin James Pearce
• Frances Jeens
• Karin Molson
• Laura Hill
• Melany Rose
• Morgan Fail
• Shereen Hunte

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRAINING AND RESEARCH GLOBAL EDUCATION TRUST.

• TRAINING AND RESEARCH GLOBAL EDUCATION TRUST income £280k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• THE CENTRE FOR TRANSFORMING ACCESS AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION income £1.8m
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION INSTITUTE income £231k
• MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION NETWORK income £40k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k

Side by side with its peers

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