BURDENS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 273535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURDEN'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The charity's main activity is making grants out of the income of the trust fund to support charitable organisations. There are no formal restrictions on the charitable activities which can be supported but the charity's main activities currently embrace the prevention and relief of acute poverty, substantially through the medium of education and healthcare especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAME OR ANY PART OR PARTS THEREOF TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE BODIES TRUSTS ASSOCIATIONS INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANISATIONS RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £7,554 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,595,092. The trustees confirm that the level of reserves is in keeping with their stated policy and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY DAVID BURDEN MA PHD
• Edmund George Jenkins
• HILARY MARGARET PERKINS MCSP SRP
• JEREMY PAUL BURDEN
• PROFESSOR A D BURDEN
• SALLY ANNE SCHOFIELD DipCOTSROT
• Susan Eva Gottlieb Cohen
• Timothy James Burden BSc

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso

Income and spending

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