- Source of Wealth: Publishing and Inheritance
- Birth Place: London, United Kingdom
- Marital Status: Married (Paul Hamlyn)
- Full Name: Helen Hamlyn
- Nationality: British
- Date of Birth: 1934
- Ethnicity: English
- Occupation: Philanthropist
- Education: Royal College of Art
Helen Hamlyn is one of Britain’s famous philanthropists. She started her philanthropic work in the fields of social justice, education, and arts with her husband, Paul Hamlyn. She continues to do this in the form of the Helen Hamlyn Trust.
Helen became famous in the eighties and nineties because her work increases the access to the Royal Opera House. They founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for inclusive design at the Royal College of Art in her name last 1999. It follows an endowment from the Trust and aims to undertake design projects that can improve people’s lives.
The notable philanthropist has homes in Buckinghamshire and Chelsea. She is also the widow of Lord Hamlyn who was a publisher who died in 2001. Lady Helen gave a lot for education and medical courses including £2m to Imperial College London. It aims to provide a fund for surgery at the Hamlyn Center.Lady also gave away millions of pounds to charity through the Helen Hamlyn Trust. She spent £10 million for the restoration of the 13th-century Chateau de Bagnols in France. It became a luxury hotel and sold it for £17 million to hotelier Andrew Davis last 2007. The lady also subsidizes tickets to the Royal Opera House for people who could not afford it.