UNSEEN (UK)

Registered charity 1127620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Disrupting and challenging human slavery. Raising awareness of slavery, trafficking and exploitation. Offering training and consultancy to businesses, police and other government services. Providing safe accommodation and support for survivors of human trafficking so they can rebuild their lives. Collaborating with government, businesses, and NGOs to share information and take effective action.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF, AND TO HELP AND ASSIST ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND/OR MODERN SLAVERY, IN PARTICULAR BY:1. THE PROVISION OF SAFE HOUSING, MEDICAL CARE, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, LEGAL ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND LIFE SKILLS AND COACHING;2. RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND/OR MODERN SLAVERY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERNATIONALLY; AND3. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus position for the year, with total income exceeding total expenditure. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves are held at £805,331, which is below the stated policy target range of £929,322 to £1,393,983, but the organisation remains in a sound financial position with adequate cash resources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06754171

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Unseen (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RACKHAM, Edward Frederick — director, appointed 20/11/2025on trustee list
• SAWYER, Shaun — director, appointed 11/05/2024not on trustee list
• MARSH, Richard Stuart — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• DUTNALL, Nicholas John — director, appointed 27/07/2022on trustee list
• HURST, Rosemary Jeanne — director, appointed 07/05/2022on trustee list
• MCMAHON, Andrea Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/02/2022on trustee list
• MCGRATH, Raquel Ann — director, appointed 18/03/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosemary Jeanne Hurstchair
• Andrea McMahon
• Edward Frederick Rackham
• Nicholas John Dutnall
• Raquel McGrath
• Richard Stuart Marsh
• Shaun Sawyer QPM · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNSEEN PURSUIT.

• UNSEEN PURSUIT income £149k
• SHARED INTEREST FOUNDATION income £683k
• GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK income £1.6m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UK income £3.7m
• THE SURREY CARE TRUST income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.