Trusts and foundations play a vital role in helping survivors of trafficking, torture and other forms of human cruelty rebuild their lives.
Grants from charitable trusts and foundations provide a significant proportion of the funding that makes our work possible. Through long-term, flexible and strategic support, our funding partners enable survivors to access the specialist care they need while also helping us tackle the systems and practices that cause further harm.
Why do we need the support of trusts and foundations?
The impact of extreme human cruelty, trafficking, torture and exploitation can be profound. Survivors may face complex physical and mental health needs, destitution and homelessness, insecure immigration status and difficult legal processes. Too often, the systems they encounter after trauma can compound their experiences rather than support their recovery. Without the right support, survivors can be left isolated and at increased risk of exploitation, deterioration and further harm.
We believe recovery is possible.
Our specialist, multidisciplinary model brings together therapeutic care, medical support, legal protection, welfare and housing assistance, and community and integration support. Together, these services help survivors rebuild their lives with safety, dignity and hope.
Alongside our direct work with survivors, we use our clinical expertise, evidence and the experiences of the people we support to influence policy and practice and create lasting change.
What your support can do
Funding from trusts and foundations enables us to provide sustained, specialist support rather than short-term interventions.
You can help us:
- protect survivors from further harm, exploitation and abuse;
- provide specialist therapeutic and medical care;
- help people secure safety, housing, welfare and legal protection;
- support survivors to rebuild confidence, independence and connection;
- challenge harmful policies and practices; and
- build the evidence needed to improve support for survivors across the UK.
Each year, we work directly with hundreds of survivors. Through our partnerships, research, training, policy work and wider influence, our expertise reaches many thousands more.
A grant to the Helen Bamber Foundation is therefore an investment in both individual recovery and lasting systemic change.
How we make sure your support is used effectively
We know how important it is for our funding partners to understand the difference their support makes.
The Helen Bamber Foundation is a clinical and evidence-led organisation. We use a robust range of outcomes and indicators to understand survivors’ progress, assess the effectiveness of our services and continually improve our approach.
We combine this with research, clinical expertise and the insights of survivors themselves.
As a funding partner, we will work with you to demonstrate the impact of your support through clear reporting, meaningful outcomes and opportunities to engage more deeply with our work.
We also recognise that transformational change takes time. Multi-year and flexible funding gives us the stability to respond to survivors' complex needs, retain specialist expertise, innovate and plan for the future.
Working together
No single organisation can address the challenges survivors face alone.
We work alongside charities, clinicians, lawyers, researchers, statutory bodies, communities and other partners to improve support for survivors and tackle the systemic barriers that prevent recovery.
Together, we pursue change through specialist services, partnerships, research, strategic litigation and influencing policy and practice.
Trusts and foundations are an important part of that partnership.
Survivors are at the centre of everything we do
The experience, knowledge and ambitions of survivors shape everything we do.
We listen to the people we support and ensure their perspectives inform the development of our services, research and influencing work.
Our Client Voices group provides an important mechanism for survivors to contribute directly to the development of the Foundation and help shape our priorities.
We believe change is strongest when it is informed by the people most affected by the systems we are seeking to improve.
Our funding partners
Support from Postcode Lottery players
We would like to thank Postcode Lottery players for their generous support of the Helen Bamber Foundation.
Funding awarded to us by the Postcode Justice Trust is helping us provide specialist care and support to survivors of trafficking, torture and other forms of human cruelty.
In 2026, the Helen Bamber Foundation received £700,000 from the Postcode Justice Trust, thanks to players of Postcode Lottery.
This support enables us to help survivors move towards safety, recovery and independence, while contributing to wider change for survivors across the UK.
Find out more about the charities supported by Postcode Lottery players:
https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/charities
Partner with us
Whether you are considering a one-off grant, multi-year partnership or strategic investment in a particular area of our work, we would be delighted to speak with you.
By supporting the Helen Bamber Foundation, your trust or foundation can help survivors move beyond trauma towards safety, recovery and independence, while contributing to wider systemic change.