Who we are
Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. We have active programmes in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 150,000 adults and children a year.
Founded in the UK in 2008, Hope for Justice is now an international charity working across the world. We help victims and survivors directly and also bring about long-term change through our work with governments, law enforcement, the business community and the general public. Find out more about our work and our model at our What we do page.
Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to other organisations that wish to protect their own operations and supply chains from modern slavery.
Hope for Justice’s vision is to live in a world free from slavery, and every step of the journey towards achieving this ambition is empowered by a global movement of supporters, campaigners, donors, fundraisers and freedom-bringers.
Hope for Justice is a charity working on the frontlines of the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery
Tim Nelson, CEO
“I’m privileged to lead our amazing charity that is changing lives for the better each and every day. We have great ambitions to reach even more countries with our shared vision to change lives and end slavery. I know that I am blessed with exceptional colleagues in every single role and location in which Hope for Justice operates with the commitment and capability to reach our goal together.”
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Our Global Executive Team
Experienced leadership committed to bringing freedom from modern slavery
Elaine Jones
Chief Operating Officer
Joy Oliveros
Chief Finance Officer
Our Country Leadership
Florence Soyekwo
Uganda Director
Moses Wangadia
Uganda Programme Director
Sosina Yirga
Ethiopia Director
Feyisa Tefera
Ethiopia Programme Director
Sarah Butler
United States Program Director
Kerry Brighouse
UK Programme Director
International Board of Directors/Trustees
‘Foluke Ajayi
Chair of Trustees
Andy Donnell
Deputy Chair of Trustees
Mike Brock
Trustee
Andrew Williams, MBE
Trustee & Whistleblowing Lead
Sterling Sankey
Trustee
Jonny Bourne, OBE
Trustee
Sarah Booth
Trustee
Bonike Bracewell
Trustee
US Board of Directors/Trustees
Sterling Sankey
US Board Chair & Treasurer
EJ Gaines
Co-Vice Chair of Trustees
Brad McClure
Co-Vice Chair of Trustees
Amy Larson
Company Secretary & Whistleblowing Lead
Lyn Matejczyk
Trustee
Mike Brock
Trustee
Australia Board of Directors/Trustees
Elaine Abery
Trustee
Megan McKenzie
Trustee
Survivor Leadership Council
Hope for Justice recognises the importance of the survivor voice and representation in our programmes and strategy. We have established a Survivor Leadership Council to influence, guide and contribute across all our Boards and the wider organisation where needed.
Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance Advisory Committees
Our Advisory Committees are an important part of working at a deeper level of involvement and understanding at Board level. Our Committees are: Finance Committee; People & Culture Committee; Risk & Compliance Committee; and Slave-Free Alliance Advisory Committee.
Our values
At Hope for Justice, our values act as guiding principles for everything we do. They’re part of who we are. They guide how we act and underline what really matter to us.
Our values spell the acronym HOPE. Hope lets us see the light despite the darkness and keeps us focused on our mission to bring an end to modern slavery.
Honouring
- Our honouring culture is unique. We actively celebrate the contributions of staff, partners, supporters and community members, including at our monthly All Staff Meetings.
- We embrace, listen and learn from different perspectives, such as our Staff Advisory Council, who represent staff and their views from each of our global countries on issues of people and culture.
Open
- In seeking to be as open as possible, we launched our global employee engagement survey in September 2022 to listen, learn and act on feedback from staff on what we could do better. Our 89% engagement score won us People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award 2022.
- We share our expertise and experience with our teams, partners and the wider community. For example, Hope for Justice is developing a framework for the accreditation of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates (IMSAs) in the UK with the British Red Cross and the Snowdrop Project. This will give a more professional approach to care for survivors and builds on the model of independent advocacy for survivors of modern slavery that has been developed by Hope for Justice over the past eight years.
Professional
- Slave-Free Alliance, our international social enterprise that supports businesses and organisations in working towards slave-free operations and supply chains, has over 100 members around the world, who collectively employ more than 1.2 million people.
- Hope for Justice played a crucial role in the biggest modern slavery prosecution in UK history, first detecting the trafficking network’s activities, then working with police to identify and support scores of survivors in their recovery, as part of the Operation Fort investigation.
- 91% of staff agreed that Hope for Justice genuinely live our organisational value of being Professional (Employee Engagement Survey, 2022).
Empowering
- Hope for Justice self-help groups help more than 10,000 women in Uganda and Ethiopia each year to economically empower and educate themselves and their families. The groups provide practical knowledge, skills and confidence to help the women move forward and understand the risks of human trafficking, to keep their children safe.
- In 2022, we launched our pioneering Hope for Justice Learning Academy, which marks the beginning of our journey to become the world’s leading human trafficking and training portal. The Hope for Justice Learning Academy provides accredited online human trafficking training courses for the public and empowers clinicians, law enforcement and those in the hospitality industry.
Our History
Hope for Justice began in the UK in 2008, when a small group of people passionate about seeing an end to modern-day slavery took the step from outrage to action. They brought together nearly 6,000 people at an event called The Stand, growing a movement and founding a charity dedicated to helping the victims and survivors of this terrible crime.
We are proud that our heritage is shared with those organisations who have joined together with us, some of which have histories stretching back before the founding of Hope for Justice itself.
We were proud to join with Natalie Grant’s anti-trafficking organization, Abolition International (formerly The Home Foundation); Transitions Global in Cambodia; Retrak in Uganda and Ethiopia; Break the Cycle 200 in the USA; Lily Pad Haven in the USA; and No More Traffik in Northern Ireland. All are now part of Hope for Justice.
