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Registered charity (CIO) · Carmarthenshire

The John Burns Foundation

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.johnburnsfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£815k
  • 2024£2.4m£782k
  • 2023£529k£664k
Earlier years
  • 2022£469k£456k
  • 2021£228k£377k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable 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.

Grants received

4 grants · £149,470 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £129,970 (3 grants)
  • Postcode Community Trust · £19,500

Most recent

  • Postcode Community Trust £19,5002024-06-28
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9802024-02-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-06-27
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £99,9902021-07-15
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Animals 6Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Agriculture 1Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

51.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.2 in 2021

15 from 14 in 2023
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1165392
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 02 Feb 2016 as amended on 19 Feb 2020
Contact on the register
01554890840 · Admin@johnburnsfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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