# EMS VALLEY MEMORIAL ARBORETUM

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1214183
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Trust
- **Registered:** July 18, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1214183


## Contact

- **Address:** FAO Proprietor Matthew Bennett, SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME, 74 HAVANT ROAD, EMSWORTH
- **Postcode:** PO10 7LH
- **Phone:** 01243372445
- **Email:** info@evma.org.uk
- **Website:** evma.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (‘THE OBJECTS’) ARE:1.FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF EMSWORTH IN HAMPSHIRE AND WESTBOURNE IN WEST SUSSEX (“THE AREA OF BENEFIT”) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, RECREATION, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ARBORETUM KNOWN AS EMS VALLEY MEMORIAL ARBORETUM

**Activities:** The EMVA charity was set up to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for education, recreation mental and physical health and wellbeing. The charity creates a living community-centered space that promotes remembrance,  environmental stewardship and public wellbeing. By planting and caring for trees, EVMA fosters a landscape that symbolises growth, memory, and continuity for generations.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Hampshire
- West Sussex




## Trustees

- **Eva Mikuska** (Chair) — appointed Feb. 22, 2022
- Dr Katherine O'Rourke — appointed June 19, 2025
- FRANK REID CAMPBELL
- Guy Schofield
- LADY CAROLINE RICHARDS — appointed Feb. 24, 2022
- Lulu Bowerman
- Matthew Bennett
- Nigel Charles Brown — appointed Feb. 22, 2022
- Yvonne Copeland — appointed Oct. 2, 2025