Registered charity · London
Helen Bamber Foundation
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...
- 12 trustees
- Income £5.8m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Adam EpsteinTrustee · since 2023
- Bronwyn FriedlanderTrustee · since 2025
- Elizabeth Anne MottershawTrustee · since 2022
- Janina Julia KowalskaTrustee · since 2018
- John ScampionTrustee · since 2020
- Lucy SiegleTrustee · since 2025
- Mafusi MaimeTrustee · since 2025
- Nancy Mccartney MsTrustee · since 2020
- Phillippa KaufmannTrustee · since 2025
- Rehab JameelTrustee · since 2025
- Samantha Peter MsTrustee · since 2020
- Victoria GrayTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- 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
- Where
- Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.helenbamber.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Helen Bamber Foundation
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£5.8m£4.8m
- 2023£3.8m£3.5m
- 2022£3.0m£2.6m
Earlier years
- 2021£2.2m£2.1m
- 2020£2.2m£1.8m
Charitable 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.
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
12 trustees on the board
- Adam Epstein since 2023
- Bronwyn Friedlander since 2025
- Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw since 2022
- Janina Julia Kowalska since 2018
- John Scampion since 2020
- Lucy Siegle since 2025
- Mafusi Maime since 2025
- Nancy Mccartney Ms since 2020
- Phillippa Kaufmann since 2025
- Rehab Jameel since 2025
- Samantha Peter Ms since 2020
- Victoria Gray since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Janina Julia Kowalska since 2018
- John Scampion since 2020
- Nancy Mccartney Ms since 2020
- Samantha Peter Ms since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Adam Epstein since 2023
- Bronwyn Friedlander since 2025
- Elizabeth Anne Mottershaw since 2022
- Lucy Siegle since 2025
- Mafusi Maime since 2025
- Nancy Mccartney Ms since 2020
- Phillippa Kaufmann since 2025
- Rehab Jameel since 2025
- Samantha Peter Ms since 2020
- Victoria Gray since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Janina Julia Kowalska since 2018
- John Scampion since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.5 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1149652
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21 AUG 2012 as amended on 14 Sep 2022 as amended on 14 Sep 2022 as amended on 05 Dec 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 08186281 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 3058 2020 · reception@helenbamber.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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