Corporate fundraising isn’t just about charity – it’s a strategic investment in people, purpose, and measurable impact. Through Unseen’s corporate fundraising and partnerships team, we work alongside businesses to build collaborations that help meet their goals, strengthen their brand, and ultimately, drive real change.
Modern slavery costs the UK an estimated £60bn each year. It is an under-recognised, under-prosecuted, highly harmful crime affecting an estimated 130,000 in the UK, including British nationals and it is a pervasive threat across every industry.
Build visibility while directly funding survivor support and awareness initiatives that align with your brand.
Take part in our exciting Unseen challenges, awareness-raising campaigns, and various fundraising events.
Support Unseen’s vital services with measurable outcomes and transparent impact reporting.
Engage your staff to make a meaningful difference, whilst strengthening Unseen’s capacity.
Enhance your CSR reputation and foster a positive workplace culture all while reducing corporate tax.
Beyond fundraising, you can deepen your impact by ensuring your own operations remain exploitation-free. Many of our partners work with the business services team to identify and tackle worker exploitation within their organisations and throughout their supply chains.
“At Bidvest Noonan, we are proud to be partners with Unseen… We believe working closely with Unseen, collecting our resources and expertise, can only impact and make a difference in a meaningful way of the lives of those affected.
With fundraising from individuals in the business, we know we have the potential to create change and contributions to building a better world, respecting human rights and addressing modern slavery. Unseen work incredibly hard and we are proud to be a part of their journey.”
Kathryn Cusick, Operational Support Manager, Bidvest Noonan
“Unseen’s modern slavery training was highly informative, well delivered, and eye-opening. It prompted me to think more deeply about this subject, what my role is in making a difference, and how exploitation might truly go unnoticed in my job and outside of work.”
Sara Sartore, Senior Events Executive, Burges Salmon
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.
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.
