THE BURDEN TRUST

Registered charity 235859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust objectives are broad and its resources limited. Applicants should either on-line using the charity's web-site. If the trustees wish to follow up an application the secretary will request additional information. The trust does not give grants to individuals. The trustees meet annually in June to approve grant requests received by the preceding 31st March.

Objects

1. AS AND FOR HOSPITALS OR HOMES OR PLACES OR PERSONS FOR CURATIVE TREATMENT OR CARE OR RESEARCH IN REGARD TO ANY HUMAN AILMENT DISEASE OR DEFECT WHATSOEVER. 2. FOR HOMES AND PLACES FOR RESIDENCE OR CARE (INCLUDING DAY-CARE) OF ANY INFIRM DISABLED DELICATE OR AGED PERSONS (AND MORE PARTICULARLY FOR CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGY AND THEIR FAMILIES). 3. AS AND FOR SCHOOLS OR TRAINING INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANISATIONS FOR CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS OR OTHERS REQUIRING TRAINING FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES IN LIFE WHETHER RELIGIOUS OR TECHNICAL BUT ALWAYS CONSISTENT OR CONSONANT WITH THE TENETS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 4. AS AND FOR ANY PURPOSE CALCULATED TO MINISTER TO THE COMFORT OR WELLBEING OF CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGY AND THEIR FAMILIES. 6. AS AND FOR HOMES OR PLACES OR ORGANISATIONS FOR THE CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THE DEATH OF A PARENT OR FOR BY ANY OTHER REASON ARE IN NEED OF CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING. 7. AS AND FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £290,953, which serve as a reserve to support the level of grants. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that grants are paid from these accrued reserves.

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.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 10/03/2026, 38 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY CROFTON MILESchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• COLIN HAVILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Carron
• Dr Neil Scolding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sheena Tranter
• Dr Valarie Rogers

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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