Impact in Numbers

In our democracy, too often it is communities with the most at stake who are excluded from the decisions that affect their lives. Breakthrough was built to change that. We built our model by asking direct-experience campaigners what they needed and listening to them.

Three years into our work the results speak for themselves:

All of this delivered by a staff team of three, on bootstrap resources, in one of the most challenging political moments in a generation.

Breakthrough-back campaigns have achieved policy change that will be felt by millions of people.

Charlotte Schreurs has changed the law for tens of thousands of sexual assault and rape survivors who now have new rights and protections throughout the trial process.

Zelda Perkins and other victims silenced by NDAs have ensured millions of workers will no longer be forced into silence if they experience discrimination, abuse or harassment in the workplace.

Esther Ghey, alongside other parent campaigners, has ensured every child in every school, state or private, will be protected from the distraction of mobile phones in classrooms.

Breakthrough-backed campaigns are building power and momentum:

The Access to Work Collective have brought together over 6,000 disabled people and forced the Government to admit it has been making cuts to the scheme. Now they are fighting to stop them.

Emily Wheeler and Furnishing Futures are helping design a national pilot to ensure domestic abuse survivors can access safe, furnished homes.

Sistah Space, who support African and Caribbean heritage women affected by domestic violence, have been invited to join the Victims’ Reference Group, the body that helps shape how victims’ services work across London.

Free Leaseholders have brought forward new rights for leaseholders to take control of the management of their own buildings.

Delivering Better have built a movement of 8,000 mothers and been invited to give evidence to the Government’s investigation into maternity care.

Kwajo Tweneboa has kept the housing crisis on the national agenda - bringing the voices of children in temporary accommodation directly to national media and the Housing Select Committee.

The wins and successes belong to the campaigners. We are proud to be trusted to stand alongside them.