ADVANCE MYANMAR LTD

Registered charity 1139662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARNBURMA

Advance Myanmar works with grassroots organisations to promote change. Advance Myanmar is founded and run by a team of people with decades of experience of the humanitarian and human rights situation in Myanmar/Burma. We provide humanitarian assistance at times of crisis, but also assist local communities to promote positive change to tackle the root causes of those crises.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves are in a deficit of £68,935 as of 31 March 2025, primarily due to multi-year grant-making commitments. However, the trustees note that significant funds were received shortly after the year end from a major donor, which rectifies this deficit. The charity's total net assets stand at £28,555, with unrestricted funds previously held at £61,940.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07368015

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PWINT THON, Wai Hnin — director, appointed 16/09/2024not on trustee list
• DUNFORD, Jack — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• SEYMOUR, Eileen — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• PHAN, Bwa Bwa — director, appointed 24/07/2017on trustee list
• HOLROYD, Jennifer — director, appointed 03/04/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bwa Bwa Phan
• Eileen Seymour
• JENNIFER HOLROYD
• Jack Dunford
• Wai Hnin Pwint Thon

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burma · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MYANMAR TRUST UK.

• MYANMAR TRUST UK income £3.0m
• MEDICAL ACTION MYANMAR UK income £199k
• PROSPECT BURMA CIO income £696k
• MERCY OUTREACH income £103k
• INDO - MYANMAR CONSERVATION income £264k
• TEKKATHO FOUNDATION income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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