The Birman Cat Club Welfare and Rescue became a registered charity on 17th February 2008. One of the benefits of this was that we could register for VAT and more importantly Gift Aid. On the 6th December 2012, our name was amended to Birman Welfare and Rescue. Birman Welfare and Rescue is completely self-funding.
Registered charities have to obey a number of rules and regulations set out in charity law one of these is to appoint trustees. We now have six trustees, their names and email addresses are below. All the trustees are voluntary as are the rescue team, who give their time and energy free of charge. We have a network of safe houses throughout the UK, which are manned by our team of devoted foster carers. The team work very closely and support each other especially when times are sad. Along with all this we have the support of many Birman breeders and owners; not forgetting all of you reading this now.