About Us

The founder of the business, Wilfred Thomas Burden, gifted a substantial proportion of his shareholding to
create the Burdens Charitable Foundation (BCF.) Unlike many foundations of equivalent size, BCF has chosen
not to employ marketing organisations or fund raisers, preferring instead that all of its income goes to
selected causes. Increasingly BCF has chosen to focus its resources on direct aid to one of the poorest areas
of the world, currently sub Saharan Africa.

The most recent example is ‘La Renaissance’, a project to build and run initially one school to provide education
for orphaned, abandoned and disabled (visually impaired) children in Burkina Faso, West Africa, one of
the poorest countries in the world.

An education for an otherwise disabled African child provides him or her with the skills to allow them to contribute
to their local society and in doing so support themselves. This is one of the win-win situations so vitally
needed in those parts of the world yet to achieve the economic strength of places such as the UK.

Burdens Charitable Foundation is a registered charity. Registered charity number 273535. And BCF is a
member of the Association of Charitable Foundations.