Shameem Sadiq-Tang

Shameem Sadiq-Tang is a UK-based safeguarding consultant working with Funder Safeguarding Collaborative. She has worked in the charity sector for over 20 years including at direct delivery charities in the UK and internationally, as well as over three years as a Safeguarding Lead at Comic Relief, a large funder.

Shameem has extensive experience in human rights, most recently in the preventing violence against women and girls sector working with Refuge, the UK’s leading domestic abuse charity. She has also worked in an international context at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, where her work included leading the global Individuals at Risk Campaign. Shameem was the architect of Survivor Activism at Freedom from Torture, a charity supporting torture survivors.

In recent years, she has supported charities in reviewing and strengthening their safeguarding structures and practice, developed and implemented programs of work around lived experience engagement including activism, and managed change processes in underperforming areas. Throughout her career, she has specialized in trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, ethics, and user engagement led by people with lived experience of trauma and mental health issues, all of which are areas of genuine passion.