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impact report 2022

This report celebrates Unseen’s achievements in 2022. From our Helpline to survivor support services and key partnerships with other charities and businesses, we tell the stories of our impact on individuals and organisations. Check out what we achieved together, thanks to your support.

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annual report

Check out Unseen’s trustees report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022.

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awards

2022

Indie Awards – Best In Show, Ukrainians Welcome campaign

2020

Themis AFC Awards – Andrew Wallis, CEO, Winner, Public Sector Anti-Financial Crime Pioneer

2019

Campaigns for Good Awards – Winner, Best Equality and Inclusion Campaign

2018

GSK Impact Awards – Winner

2017

Kate Garbers, Managing Director – DSC Social Change Awards, The Influencer Award

2015

Charity Times Awards – Charity of the Year, with an income of less than £1 million

Charity Times Awards – Shortlisted, Rising CEO Star, Andrew Wallis

2015

Lloyds Bank Foundation Charity Achievement Awards – Highly Commended, Championing Change

2013

Andrew Wallis, CEO – DSC Social Change Awards, The Influencer Award

2013

Centre for Social Justice Awards

2012

Kate Garbers, Director – The McWhirter Foundation, Good Citizenship Award

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Justine Currell

As I came to understand more about the issue, including through a visit to an Unseen safehouse, I knew I needed to do more to stop this abuse and exploitation.

For the last five years of my Civil Service career, I was the Modern Slavery Senior Policy Advisor in the Home Office and led on development of the Modern Slavery Act, including the transparency in supply chains provision and business guidance.

I joined Unseen to lead the development of the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, and Unseen’s work with businesses. I am regularly called upon to present at national and international conferences and use my experience of working with Ministers to influence other governments internationally to take action to address modern slavery and, in particular, business supply chain issues.

In my spare time I enjoy keeping fit, music, reading and travelling.

Andrew Wallis

What ultimately compelled me to act was a report on how people from Eastern Europe were being trafficked through Bristol airport to the USA. Kate Garbers, who went on to be an Unseen Director, and I wrote to all the city councillors, MPs and the Police Chief Constable challenging them on the issue. The challenge came back to us: this city needs safe housing for trafficked women. And so Unseen began.

But we never wanted Unseen to be just about safe housing. We wanted to end slavery once and for all, and that remains our driving focus.

I chaired the working group for the Centre for Social Justice’s landmark report “It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to Fight Modern Slavery”. This is now acknowledged as the catalyst behind the UK’s Modern Slavery Act of 2015. It was a great honour to be awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours that year. On the other hand, I’ve also been described as “the loveliest disrupter you could ever hope to meet”.

This job has taken me from building flat-pack furniture for safehouses, to working with businesses to address slavery in supply chains, to delivering training, raising awareness and advising governments around the world.

When not at work, I enjoy travelling, spending time with my dog Harley, cooking, supporting Liverpool and Yorkshire CC, music (I’m a former DJ) and endurance events such as the Three Peaks Challenge and Tribe Freedom Runs – which I vow never to do again. Until the next time.