Aim: Our podcast centres the voices that Britain’s institutions choose to ignore: the survivors. Donate! It’s time to address the harm!

We created the Address the Harm podcast because survivors of institutional harm know what went wrong, why it keeps happening, and how to stop it. But institutions rarely ask them.

Our vision

Britain's institutions respond to harm with genuine accountability. The Nolan Principles include restorative principles - acknowledgement, apology, survivor voice, and prevention. An independent office for institutional accountability with real enforcement power.

Who we're talking to

• Issy Vine - whistleblower now suing the Metropolitan Police over misogyny and institutional failure to protect staff who report harm
  
  

• Maggie Oliver - former detective who exposed failures in the Rochdale grooming gang cases and continues campaigning for survivors of child sexual exploitation
  
  

• Andy Evans - survivor and campaigner from the infected blood scandal, where over 30,000 NHS patients were given contaminated blood transfusions between 1970 and the early 1990s
  
  

• Julia Margo and Cristina Odone - advocate from Fair Hearing, working on access to justice and accountability in the legal system
  
  

Chinook families who are still seeking justice 31 years on from the fatal crash of a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, on 2nd June 1994

We're also in conversation with survivors across NHS healthcare, social care, family courts, and other publicly funded institutions who've experienced the devastating pattern of institutional self-investigation.

How we'll use the money

£5000 will enable us to produce 6 episodes but we want to do 12.

Podcast production - recording equipment, editing, transcription for accessibility, hosting 

Campaign materials - design, social media amplification 

Supporting survivors to tell their stories

Why now

Parliament is debating the Public Authority Accountability Bill and the Ethics Bill right now. New polling shows 62% of the public wants survivors involved in institutional responses, and 53% prioritise preventing future harm over prosecution or compensation.

We're already in conversations with MPs. Our white paper has reached decision-makers. Every episode strengthens the evidence base for transformation.

But we're entirely self-funded. To maintain quality and frequency, we need your help.

Our track record

The host of Address The Harm® has interviewed leaders ranging from Sophia Smith Galer to Lord Ed Vaizey; from Rosie Wilby to Nitin Sawhney CBE. She has a unique ability to capture peoples’ stories and has enjoyed recording every episode of Address The Harm® so far. 

What we've achieved

Published our white paper "From harm to healing: rebuilding trust in Britain's publicly funded institutions" showing how restorative principles could prevent institutional failures.

Commissioned Deltapoll research proving public support for survivor-led accountability.

Built relationships with bereaved family campaign groups, judges and parliamentarians.

Created a platform amplifying voices institutions work hardest to silence.