About us
Victim Support is the only independent charity for victims and witnesses of crime in England and Wales. We were set up 35 years ago and have grown to become the oldest and largest victims' organisation in the world. Every year, we contact over 1.5 million people after a crime to offer our help.
We depend on thousands of specially-trained volunteers to deliver our services to victims and
witnesses and could not run the services we provide without them.
Although we work closely with the police, courts and other parts of the criminal justice system, we are quite separate and just like any other charity we need funds to support our work.
We have Victim Support offices across England and Wales managed by our National Centre in London and we run the Witness Service in every court. We also run the national helpline Victim Supportline.