The Network is funded by Arts Council England and the British Museum's Partnership UK programme which receives funding from the Vivmar Foundation. A number of key partner institutions are affiliated with the Network.

It has five main aims:

• Act as an information exchange for curators within the UK whose collections include coins, medals and other objects relating to monetary and economic history and numismatics
• Provide information on best practice, new research and news items relating to the understanding, care and public access of those collections
• Encourage and facilitate collaborative ventures between the curators of those collections and to nurture links between those curators and individuals outside museums with an interest in related subject areas
• Make the broad case for the potential of those collections and the importance of numismatic expertise for bringing them effectively to a wide audience and;
• Work to identify new and exciting ways in which those collections can be presented to the public.