EUROPEAN MUSEUM FORUM

Registered charity 1136790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMF

The charity was set up with the purpose that the funds of the charity may be applied to maintain, improve and advance public education and in particular to assist and support museums to promote and encourage interest in such museums. This did not include museums operated for private profit.

Objects

4.1 TO MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE ANDSUPPORT MUSEUMS WHICH ARE NOT CONDUCTED FOR PRIVATE PROFIT;4.2 OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICHARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE IN THEAREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £12,304 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £90,648. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, noting that free unrestricted reserves of £87,384 are equivalent to approximately 11 months of expenditure based on current levels. The financial review indicates that while costs were reduced, revenues also decreased, resulting in a financial equilibrium rather than a surplus.

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.

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Museum Studio — “We thank the Museum Studio for its generous support and to our grantees for joining us in celebrating the EMYA2025 Annual Conference and Awa…” (source page)
• Chargeurs Museum Studio — “We thank the Chargeurs Museum Studio for its generous support and to our grantees for joining us in celebrating the EMYA2023 Annual Conferen…” (source page)
• Council of Europe — “Supplementing these, the organisation receives invaluable institutional support from the Council of Europe, from the Municipality of Portima…” (source page)
• Municipality of Portimão — “Supplementing these, the organisation receives invaluable institutional support from the Council of Europe, from the Municipality of Portima…” (source page)
• Silletto Trust — “Supplementing these, the organisation receives invaluable institutional support from the Council of Europe, from the Municipality of Portima…” (source page)
• Heritage and Museums — “Supplementing these, the organisation receives invaluable institutional support from the Council of Europe, from the Municipality of Portima…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/05/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amina Krvavacchair
• Adriana Ofelia del Jesus Munoz
• Ciaron Wilkinson
• Johannes Jacobus Looijen
• Leontine Meijer-Van Mensch
• Michal Wisniewski

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

Operates in: Armenia · Azerbaijan · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Croatia · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece

Income and spending

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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 THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION.

• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE income £145k
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP income £1.3m
• EUREKA THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM income £5.2m
• THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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