My name is Andrew Burgess and I am a 35 year old man with autism - namely Asperger’s syndrome - which was diagnosed later in life.

My condition causes anxiety, fear and over-caring for society.

In September 2019, I attended an event run by a self-proclaimed property guru/millionaire.

I was very excited to attend; my initial impression was that they were credible and impressive, and I thought they might be just the mentors to help me grow in property.

I attended the event with an open mind, and really engaged with the overly long day, with the intention of getting the most out of it.

However, about half way through the day, I started to feel uncomfortable with the exceptionally hard sell, and how some of the people I had spoken to, who were in desperate situations, had signed up for further training, costing many thousands of pounds.

I knew how cash intensive a property business is, and I felt these people were not financially equipped to succeed, and were going further into debt.

It felt like they were selling a dream.

After the event, I started asking around and hearing of dissatisfied customers. Many were vulnerable people seeking refunds. They were lost, distressed, and anxious about how much money they had spent.  The penny had ‘dropped’ in that they were not going to become financially free using these methods, and had handed over their life savings. Around 70 or so had gathered together on a WhatsApp group to support each other.

I therefore set up a Facebook group as a place where people could share their experiences of the training - both positive and negative - and also get support if they felt that they had been miss-sold the training. I realised the scale of the problem within the wealth creation industry.

My group was started in September 2019 and one of the early members was a serving soldier with the 219 RLC Doncaster Unit.

This member took his own life. In the interest of balance, the Claimants refute that the death had anything at all to do with them. This will be for the Court to decide.

I launched a crowdfunding campaign that enabled the family to pay for his funeral.

In January 2020,  a matter of months after the formation of my group, the BBC went ‘under cover’ at such an event.

Viewing figures for the program were reported to be in the region of 20 million.

A Telegraph journalist also attended one of the events , and four articles were published raising concerns over the marketing methods used.

Then a consumer show ‘gate-crashed’ a training day for Channel 4' which achieved viewing figures of circa 1.4million.  

Around this time, myself and fellow admins, various you-tubers, forums, and other property commentators started to receive legal threats from Solicitors for defamation and harassment.

Most caved in, and deleted their content, but myself and my fellow admins engaged with the pre-action protocols and defended our right to comment.

In May 2021, myself, fellow admins, and a few members of my group were served with High Court papers for defamation and harassment.

The Property Trainer is claiming £10,001,730.59 in damages against us.

This is despite:

- huge negative mainstream media coverage,

- particulars of claim over 300 pages long,

- A claim for £10,001,730.59 in damages, notwithstanding no action at all being taken as against the BBC or any other MSM coverage!

So far, we have spent a six-figure sum of our own money defending these claims.

The legal case that we are facing is long and complex.

That is why we are launching our Crowd Justice campaign.

We need to see this through to court to hold them to account.

The Wealth Creation Industry and Property Trainer uses platforms with young and vulnerable people via Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram and draws them into a highly charged and emotional environment where they are made to believe that anything is possible. Pictures from these events show the audience to be mainly young - between 18 and 25 - many with English as their second language. There is loud music, dancing, repeating of affirmations and other such techniques to heighten people's emotions.

The property wealth creation sector is completely unregulated and we know that, over the years, people have lost millions to property gurus, many of whom have gone bust.

Therefore, it is only private citizens, Facebook groups, and a few forums that are creating due diligence warnings about the industry..

Property Trainers are systematically shutting these down with legal threats and replacing them with “puff pieces” that they pay to have placed in the media about themselves and their training.

People are getting rich off the back of people and using that money to destroy people who had the courage to stand up to them and call out false claims and hype.

Please support our campaign to raise money to defend ourselves. We are facing a huge and scary battle.

We cannot fund any further defence so we now need help with our legal bills.

Please donate whatever you can. Your support means everything to us.

I will finish by saying that the stress of this court case has negatively impacted my mental health and I am currently under the care of a psychiatrist.  It has also affected my ability to work within the security industry and my ability to function and stand my ground due to weight loss and has put enormous stress on my girlfriend and my family.

I am the demographic of person the industry likes to hook into its marketing funnel. The Wealth creation Industry thinks people like me cannot stand up for ourselves.  It is mostly right, but with the strength of my family, friends, and fellow admins, I am not going to cave in to this bullying to silence and crush people.

With objectivity and fairness in mind;  the Claimants refute all of the points that I am making in this page. The Claimants will say that all of the negative press generated by the mainstream media is without merit although, little appears to have been done by them to challenge this in the Courts, save for instigating legal proceedings against me.

The objectives of this page is solely to raise money to pay for professional legal assistance to enable me to present my case in court, it does not mean that you accept or anyone accepts my view of the case, this is a matter entirely for the Court. 

Thank you for reading this and for your support, please share our Crowd justice Page on Social media. If you are not in a position to make a donation of just £5 please share our campaign to show support