WE ARE THE HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION, A HUMAN RIGHTS CHARITY.

We give survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on.

With an all encompassing care for the whole journey, survivors have the dignity, strength and freedom to live their lives to the fullest.

Our care ensures survivors are free, healthy, safe, are protected from re-victimisation, detention and poverty.
Our care guides survivors to recover following their experiences of trafficking and torture.
Our care supports survivors for their whole journey enabling constant and sustained recovery.

It’s about trust. It’s about listening. It’s about love. Ensuring survivors have the strength to fly.

Latest

Without secure immigration status, trafficking survivors cannot recover from trauma. It’s time to change that.

Kamena Dorling

Once a person has been officially recognised as a ‘victim of trafficking’, the Home Office should automatically consider whether they should be given a grant of leave to remain in the UK. But last year our research revealed that a shockingly low number of confirmed survivors of trafficking had received this. Instead, they were left in limbo and reliant on the asylum system as a safety net.

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Hostile asylum and immigration systems cause further harm to the mental health of people seeking protection in the UK

Kennith Rosario

It is critical for refugees and survivors of trafficking and torture to have access to consistent, trauma-informed support; proactive health screening; and medical and therapeutic care to recover from their past experiences. But key to addressing the mental health needs of survivors of torture and trafficking is also addressing the systemic failings that cause them harm in the UK.

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Forced to pick between food or medicines, people seeking asylum receive woefully inadequate financial support

Kamena Dorling

Year after year, the Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) has provided detailed evidence to the Home Office explaining why the meagre financial support given to people seeking asylum denies them their basic needs. This has a terrible impact on their mental health and impedes their recovery from trauma, torture and abuse. But every year, the rates are barely revised. If at all, they are increased by an amount so insignificant that it hardly makes a dent in their experiences of poverty.

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Our Work

The Helen Bamber Foundation provide detailed and specialised care across six key areas for survivors of trafficking, torture and extreme human cruelty.
Our specialist teams of professionals provide therapy, medical advice, legal protection, housing and welfare, counter trafficking and help with integration into the community. 
This all encompassing care ensures that Survivors heal, reclaim their independence and start living fully.

 

Our Approach

Our all encompassing care will directly or indirectly support survivors of torture, trafficking and extreme human cruelty across the UK and beyond. We do this by working directly with Survivors. By sharing our insight and training with partner organisations to indirectly reach more Survivors and securing policy and practice change to help support every Survivor. 

To put it frankly, we ensure the best level of care for our clients. And we know that the best level of care is always changing, so, we grow alongside our clients, to make sure we maintain excellence. 

Become Part of Our Journey

When you become a donor, you become part of the Helen Bamber Foundation. You become a part of the all encompassing care. You voice, joins with our voices, to become actively part of survivor’s recovery. You join the journey towards freedom, safety and power for all survivors of torture, trafficking and extreme human cruelty. 

You are holding hands with people who are deemed ‘unfixable’ telling them you are listening, you are not a bystander, you are here for the whole journey.

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