fundraise

From marathons to bake sales, epic challenges to creative fundraisers, every effort you make helps us work towards a world without slavery.

create your own fundraiser

There are so many ways you can raise money and make a real difference. To get inspired, explore our A-Z, where each letter unlocks creative and effective fundraising ideas and find other helpful guides and tips on our resources page.

take on a challenge

Modern slavery is a global issue, but you can be part of the solution. Choose from a range of adventures – from adrenaline-pumping skydives to awe-inspiring treks across stunning landscapes.

what our fundraisers say...

When you put yourself through an enduring experience, it’s even more rewarding when you do it for a worthy cause – and that’s exactly what Unseen is. I know that my support in raising money for Unseen will have helped people in need. For that, I am grateful for charities like Unseen that want the world to be a better place.

Kathryn Cusick 
London Landmarks Half Marathon challenge participant 2024  

My tandem skydive is complete! The whole experience was just amazing, and my tandem instructor & cameraman were two of the loveliest guys you’d ever met so I was very grateful for that too. It was such a surreal experience, and I was certainly terrified when the doors opened at 13,000ft but I’m already planning on doing another one!

Isabel Cartwright
Warwick skydive challenge participant 2021

“There truly is nothing quite like reaching a mountain peak. That moment when you’re right at the top and you look back on where you just came from; the continent spread out below you. Spending a week on the mountain stripped away all that everyday baggage we surround ourselves with.”

Ian Hawkins
Mount Kilimanjaro challenge participant 2023
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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.