# Government invests first £6 million from Modern Slavery Innovation Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/30/government-invests-first-6m-modern-slavery-innovation-fund/
- Published: 2017-03-30T10:10:08+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Government has announced a £6 million investment in projects to combat modern
slavery and provide support for its victims.**

 

The £6 million is the first investment from the £11 million [Modern Slavery Innovation Fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/11/home-office-opens-new-modern-slavery-fund-applications/)
announced by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd last October, and which forms part of
£33.5 million of overseas aid funding set aside to support the global fight against
modern slavery.

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The first Modern Slavery Innovation Fund awards will be shared by 10 projects working
to stop the crime, particularly in countries from which victims are trafficked to
the UK.

 

Projects funded include those to stop child slavery in factories supplying products
to this country, and working to identify and disrupt key human trafficking routes
to the UK used by organised crime gangs.

 

The funds will also help to support vulnerable victims, bring those responsible 
to justice, and improve local law enforcement responses to slavery. The investment
will also fund research into the issue and help raise awareness in key hotspots.

 

Organisations receiving financial support include [UN University](https://unu.edu/),
which will receive over £1m to help them gather and share global data on modern 
slavery, and [GoodWeave](http://www.goodweave.org.uk/) to help it expand its work,
which focuses on stopping child labour in the carpet industry.

 

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said:

 

> “Modern slavery is a global human rights outrage that casts a dark shadow around
> the world. This barbaric crime affects every country and this funding will protect
> those who risk being trafficked to our shores or who suffer intolerable cruelty
> to make the products we buy.”

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