HELEN BAMBER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1149652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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/.

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

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helen Bamber Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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 · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HELEN AND DAVID HAINS (UK) FOUNDATION.

• THE HELEN AND DAVID HAINS (UK) FOUNDATION income £501k
• Human Rights Protection Fund income £441k
• HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION income £4.8m
• HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUNDATION income £250k
• FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS UK income £4.0m
• KARMA NIRVANA income £538k

Side by side with its peers

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