HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1149652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536675

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.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group achieved a surplus of £225,057 in 2025, with total funds increasing to £3,187,081. Free reserves increased to £829,387, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure but within agreed levels while rebuilding reserves. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 4 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Home Office releases asylum age dispute statistics as Helen Bamber Foundation warns of ongoing safeguarding failures ein.org.uk · 27/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ASYLUM AID Companies House 02513874
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08186281

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helen Bamber Foundation (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.

• KAUFMANN, Phillippa Jane — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• SIEGLE, Lucy Danielle — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• GRAY, Victoria Marie — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• FRIEDLANDER, Bronwyn — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• MAIME, Mafusi Celin — director, appointed 10/07/2025on trustee list
• JAMEEL, Rehab Abdel Mahmoud — director, appointed 10/07/2025on trustee list
• EPSTEIN, Adam James — director, appointed 30/03/2023on trustee list
• MOTTERSHAW, Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• MCCARTNEY, Nancy — director, appointed 15/08/2021on trustee list
• PETER, Samantha — director, appointed 15/08/2021on trustee list
• SCAMPION, John Matthew — director, appointed 02/04/2020on trustee list
• KOWALSKA, Janina Julia — director, appointed 05/04/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 12.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Epstein
• Bronwyn Friedlander
• Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw
• Janina Julia Kowalska · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Scampion
• Lucy Siegle
• Mafusi Maime
• Nancy McCartney Ms
• Phillippa Kaufmann
• Rehab Jameel
• Samantha Peter Ms
• Victoria Gray

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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