Victoria Teens Foundation
Your story doesn’t end here. What comes next is yours to write.
We help young survivors of sexual abuse heal, learn, build digital skills, and shape the future — at their own pace, on their own terms.
Our mission
Recovery and opportunity, side by side — not one after the other.
Victoria Teens Foundation supports children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse to recover, learn, and build digital skills and confidence for the future — and works alongside them to prevent abuse and challenge the silence that protects it.
We don’t see therapy and opportunity as separate things that happen in sequence. A bootcamp place, a qualification, a mentor who believes in you — these are part of healing too.
“Something happened to you that should never happen to anyone. It was not your fault, it does not define you, and it does not get the final word on your life.”
What guides us
Believed, the first time
No young person should have to prove what happened to them before they get support.
Healing at your own pace
Recovery isn’t linear. Our services move at the pace survivors actually heal at.
More than what happened
Therapy, education, digital skills and campaigning all widen who a survivor gets to be.
Designed with survivors
Our Young Persons’ Advisory Panel shapes our services — not as a token gesture, but a genuine say.
Get support
If you need to talk, you don’t have to do it alone.
Whatever happened, and whenever it happened, we’re here to listen — without judgement, and at your pace.
Talk to someone
A calm, confidential conversation with a trained team member — you decide how much you want to share.
Find ways to reach us →Text or webchat
Prefer typing to talking? Our webchat is being built into VTF’s Phase 1 launch, with the same care as every other channel.
See what’s launching →Worried about someone else
Parents, carers, teachers and friends can reach out too. We’ll help you work out the next right step.
Get guidance →If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 999. Victoria Teens Foundation's own helpline is being established as part of our Phase 1 regional launch. Until then, Childline (0800 1111) and the NSPCC Helpline (0808 800 5000) are free, confidential, and available right now, day or night.
What we do
Four pillars. One journey.
Every young person’s path through VTF is different, but it tends to move through some or all of these four stages — not as a fixed programme, but as a set of doors that stay open.
Therapeutic support
One-to-one and group counselling and therapy, age-adapted from play therapy for younger children to talking therapies for teenagers, alongside support for non-abusing parents and carers.
Education & prevention
Age-appropriate personal safety and healthy relationships education in schools, training for parents, carers and professionals, and an anonymous self-help resource for young people themselves.
Digital futures
Free digital and coding skills bootcamps, an online safety academy, and employer-backed mentoring and work placements — a genuine, fundable route into a future career.
Voice & campaigns
A Young Persons’ Advisory Panel that shapes our services, survivor-led public awareness campaigns, and policy work that turns young people’s experiences into concrete change.
How we keep you safe
Safety isn’t a policy document. It’s how we work, every day.
Every part of VTF is built around the safeguarding standards the Charity Commission and the wider sector expect — and then we go further.
Vetted, trained team
Enhanced DBS and barred-list checks, safer recruitment practice, and mandatory induction and refresher training for every role.
A named Safeguarding Lead
Every service has a Designated Safeguarding Lead, and safeguarding is a standing item at every board meeting, not just when something goes wrong.
Your pace, your choice
We explain clearly what’s confidential and what isn’t, and we never ask you to share more than you’re ready to.
No identifiable images, ever
We never publish a photograph that could identify a child or young person we support — no exceptions, regardless of consent pressure.
Our manifesto
What we believe, in four lines.
Every young person deserves to be believed, the first time, without having to prove it.
A young person is never just their trauma — everything we do widens who they get to be.
Technology should be a route to power for survivors, not just a source of risk.
Nothing about young survivors, without young survivors, in anything we build.
Victoria Teens Foundation: for what comes after.
Get involved
Three ways to help us open our doors.
We’re a young charity, still completing registration — which means early support shapes what we’re able to build first.
Donate
Help fund our founding pilot — from a single prevention session in a classroom to a young person’s full place on a digital skills bootcamp.
Support our launchVolunteer or mentor
Vetted peer mentors, group facilitators, and technology-sector mentors for our Empower bootcamps — full training and supervision provided.
Register your interestPartner with us
Schools, local authorities, and technology employers — help us build referral routes, work placements, and a stronger prevention offer together.
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