leave a legacy

Make a lasting impact on society by leaving a gift in your Will to Unseen, helping us to keep fighting slavery and create a better world for future generations.
Call the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline on 08000 121 700

how does it work?

Unseen has partnered with Octopus Legacy to offer you a free Will-writing service. All we ask is that you consider leaving a gift to Unseen in your Will after your loved ones have been financially taken care of.

By writing a Will, not only will you have peace of mind that your affairs are in order, but you can also ensure your legacy continues.

A charitable donation in your will is also a tax-efficient way of giving. There are several ways to remember Unseen in your Will: 

Leave a specific sum

Leave a specific sum

Leave a percentage of your estate

Leave a percentage of your estate

Leave a specific item

Leave a specific item

why leave a gift?

For 15 years, Unseen has provided a lifeline for survivors of modern slavery.

As of 2022, our Frontline Services team has helped more than 700 survivors through unimaginable trauma and our 24/7 Helpline continues to field thousands of calls from across the UK.

A gift in your Will helps to ensure that survivors receive the compassionate care they deserve, and enables us to keep striving towards our goal of a world without slavery.

Read first-hand accounts of the lives that have been impacted by Unseen’s work here.

next steps

To hear more about leaving a gift in your Will through our free service, visit the link below to fill out a no obligation form.

A member of the Unseen Team will respond to help you understand the impact your gift will make and answer any questions you have. Then, if you’d like to move forward, we’ll guide you through the process.

If you have already pledged a gift to us, we’d love to hear from you so we can keep you updated about the impact you’ll make.

If you would like to take up our free Will-writing service, please visit the Octopus Legacy website.

To speak to a member of our team, please email [email protected]

We hope you will join us in continuing our fight against slavery. 

find out more

about us

about us

Our mission is simple: to put an end to slavery for good. We do this by supporting survivors of modern slavery and trafficking and working collaboratively with our partners to put an end to exploitation.

our impact

our impact

Since Unseen began in 2008, we’ve supported over 800 survivors of modern slavery through our safehouse & outreach services and identified over 23,000 potential victims through our helpline.

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other ways to give

There are lots of ways to support our vital work and give hope to survivors of modern slavery, so check out these alternative ways to give.

Got a question? Email the fundraising team for support
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.