The John Burns Foundation

Registered charity 1165392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURNS PET NUTRITION FOUNDATION

Training socially isolated people and children in conservation,horticulture and woodland related countryside skills;Preventing people from social exclusion as a result of unemployment; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); disability; poor educational or skills attainment. Helping others via human animal interaction

Objects

(A) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY TRAINING OR RETRAINING PARTICULARLY AMONGST UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN FARMING, HORTICULTURE AND WOODLAND RELATED COUNTRYSIDE SKILLS;(B) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. (FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); DISABILITY; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT.)(C) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL OR OTHER SUPPORT FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANISATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO FURTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES; AND(D) SUCH GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £808,953 are in excess of the trustees' policy target of approximately six months of charitable expenditure. However, the trustees note that a significant decline in donations is anticipated following the cessation of annual support from Burns Pet Nutrition Ltd in December 2028, which will have a significant impact on future net income.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole & Co. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The John Burns Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £250k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~51.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (47% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger James Mathiaschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Dylan Harries Mr · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN BURNS
• Luke Thomas
• Rev Anthony Roger Morley-Jones
• Yvonne Bruton-Miller

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 BORN FREE FOUNDATION.

• THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION income £7.8m
• ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £200k
• OUR SPECIAL FRIENDS income £231k
• THE BRITISH NUTRITION FOUNDATION income £954k
• DAN'S FUND FOR BURNS income £436k
• THE JEAN SAINSBURY ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST income £423k

Side by side with its peers

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