BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF MUSEUMS

Registered charity 1159670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4969527 · Wikipedia · also known as BAFM

To help to set up and run friends and volunteers of heritage organisations and represent at local and national level.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF BAFM ARE AS FOLLOWS:1. THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF INSTITUTIONS THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF FRIENDS GROUPS.2. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITABLE AND NON CHARTABLE BODIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, BAFM MAY: A) ENCOURAGE, PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FRIENDS GROUPS FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES; B) GENERALLY FURTHER THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FRIENDS, AND ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACILITIES THEY AFFORD; C) ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER THE INTERCHANGE AMONG FRIENDS GROUPS OF INFORMATION LIKELY TO ENHANCE THE EDUCATIONAL USEFULNESS AND EFFICIENCY OF THEIR INSTITUTIONS; D) APPOINT REPRESENTATIVES AND SUBSCRIBE TO ANY OTHER BODIES, LOCAL, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL, WITH WHOM BAFM MAY BE CONCERNED; E) ENGAGE IN, SUPPORT AND CO-ORDINATE RESEARCH, PUBLISHING, TRAINING, EDUCATION, ADVERTISING AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID OBJECT; F) ENGAGE IN ANY OTHER LAWFUL ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE THE SAID OBJECTS. BAFM SHALL NOT ENGAGE IN ANY SUBSTANTIAL PERMANENT TRADING ACTIVITIES, AND SHALL CONFORM TO ANY RELEVANT REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF BAFM FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £9,966.54, which the chairman described as very disappointing. Principal income from subscriptions and insurance was down, although interest income grew to over £1,500. The charity is currently examining its insurance provision, membership pricing, and running costs to make necessary changes.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

• Marsh Charitable Trust — “In Association with the Marsh Charitable Trust Guidance Notes for applicants BAFM wants to recognise the exceptional work that Friends Group…” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIEL CALLEYchair
• Christopher Jeffery Tinmouth
• Dr Richard John Irvine
• JEAN CAROLE KNIGHT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lloyd Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL DAVID JOHN HOWITT-COWAN · trustee of 5 other charities
• Timothy Craven

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY.

• THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY income £1.6m
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MOSDOS TCHERNOBEL income £1.1m
• THE FRIENDS OF BRIXWORTH V.C. PRIMARY SCHOOL income £28k
• ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS income £1.7m
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• BRITISH DEAF HISTORY SOCIETY LIMITED income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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