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Helen Bamber Foundation

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1149652
Status
Registered
Registered
Nov. 7, 2012
Legal form
Charitable company

Address

Address
Asylum Aid
26 Westland Place
LONDON
N1 7JH

Activities

HBF is a human rights charity based in London, founded in 2005. Our specialist team of therapists, doctors and legal experts hold an international reputation for providing therapeutic care, medical consultation, legal protection and practical support to survivors of human rights violations. Previous Charity No: 1111048. All Accounts available on our website: http://www.helenbamber.org/accounts/.

Objects: 2.1 The Charity is established for the following purposes for the benefit of the Beneficiaries: 2.1.1 to relieve their conditions of need, hardship or distress; 2.1.2 to preserve and protect their physical and mental health; 2.1.3 to advance their education and training so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community; 2.1.4 to advance public education about the position of and issues relating to the Beneficiaries, including gross violations of human rights, torture, atrocities and other forms of human cruelty and their effect on persons who suffer them; 2.1.5 assisting them in such other exclusively charitable ways as the Charity determines from time to time. 2.2 In this Article 2, “Beneficiaries” means individuals who: 2.2.1 are seeking asylum or other forms of protection in the UK; 2.2.2 have already been granted refugee status, humanitarian protection or other forms of protection status by UK immigration authorities; 2.2.3 have insecure immigration status or are stateless; 2.2.4 are vulnerable by reason of their experience of torture, trafficking, hostilities, genocides or other atrocities or human cruelty, 2.2.5 are vulnerable to destitution, exploitation, abuse, trafficking or other forms of human cruelty including but not limited to those outside their country of origin; and 2.2.6 the dependants of those mentioned in Articles 2.2.1 to 2.2.5 above.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Country
Northern Ireland, Scotland
Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Dec. 31, 2024 £5,771,255 £4,823,253 £2,962,024 79
Dec. 31, 2023 £3,777,377 £3,469,378 £2,014,022 69
Dec. 31, 2022 £3,045,239 £2,623,546 £1,706,023 55
Dec. 31, 2021 £2,170,076 £2,077,130 £1,284,330 43
Dec. 31, 2020 £2,157,221 £1,821,120 £1,191,384 36

Trustees

Name Appointed
Adam Epstein March 30, 2023
Bronwyn Friedlander Dec. 11, 2025
Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw Jan. 20, 2022
Janina Julia Kowalska April 5, 2018
John Scampion April 2, 2020
Lucy Siegle Dec. 11, 2025
Mafusi Maime July 10, 2025
Nancy McCartney Ms Sept. 17, 2020
Olivia Curno Oct. 6, 2022
Phillippa Kaufmann Dec. 11, 2025
Rehab Jameel July 10, 2025
Samantha Peter Ms April 1, 2020
Victoria Gray Dec. 11, 2025