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CO

2025

Community Action Derby (CA Derby)

Annual Impact Report 2024/25

£1,731,376 distributed through 275 grants to 138 groups and organisations; 244 nominations, 18 awards, 150 guests at Derby Volunteer Awards Night

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Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme: 16,459 children in summer, 4,468 in Easter, 2,459 in winter — across 36 summer, 32 Easter and 22 winter providers; £1,031,657 in HAF grants allocated/facilitated

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Derby Social Prescribing: average 175 referrals per month (2,100 per year); 10,901 attendances across 585 DE23 Active sessions (11 trained volunteers); Warm Welcome Hub grants: 84 providers, £233k, 69,768 people supported through cost of living

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Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities through DHIP; 130 families supported via Youth Alliance referrals from schools, further education, housing providers, youth offending service and Derbyshire Constabulary

Community & Social Justice Refugees

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GE

2024

General Medical Council (GMC)

Annual Report 2024

GMC regulates doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) across the UK; 185 Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunals held in 2024; 67 doctors removed from register

Key Metric 1

Fitness to practise timeliness improved in 2024; disproportionality in employer referral rates between ethnic minority and white doctors narrowed from 0.28% (2016-20) to 0.19% (2018-22); Good medical practice updated version came into effect January 2024

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Outreach teams spoke to doctors across UK on Good medical practice application; EDI targets update published October 2024; PSA (Professional Standards Authority) noted improvements in fitness to practise timeliness and praised updated Good medical practice; 60% of 2023-24 UK medical school intake are increasingly diverse

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PSA review noted improvements in fitness to practise timeliness; reduction in disproportionality of fitness to practise referrals by employer; narrowing of attainment gap in specialty training for internationally qualified doctors; improved ethnic minority representation in GMC's own workforce

Health & Wellbeing Education

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WA

2024

Wales Innovation Network (WIN)

Impact Report 2021/24

£2,166,675 WIN funding leveraged £38,056,811 in additional investment; bids totalling £116,774,382 submitted to external funders; 31 external funders secured

Key Metric 1

137 external partners included in successful small grant bids across 13 countries; £5m+ direct industry investment; £267,000 awarded to 39 projects through Small Grant Fund

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89% of Welsh research rated internationally excellent or world-leading for impact (REF 2021); 85% improved processes and practices; 90% created UK-wide impact; 60%+ reached global audiences

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Advanced Design Engineering group secured £2.028m in funding following WIN support; Cymru Wledig Rural Wales LPIP awarded £5m+ for rural policy innovation; One Health Wales Institute secured £5.12m including £5m commercial contract

Education & Young People Health

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SO

2024

Social Investment Business (SIB)

Impact Report 2022-2024

£81,592,894 disbursed between November 2022 and March 2024; Youth Investment Fund (YIF) — largest fund SIB has ever managed — expanding youth provision in England's most underserved communities

Key Metric 1

Reach Fund supported 170 organisations with £1,922,475 in readiness grants (Dec 2022 – Mar 2024); 33 social investors working with Reach Fund; Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) has supported 330+ organisations with £8m+ in grants since 2018

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Diversity dashboard covers 11 funds; 46% of successful BAME-led and environmental EDP round organisations in most deprived 20% of areas; team doubled in size with YIF addition

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YIF expanded youth service provision in communities with highest levels of disadvantage; EDP organisations in Round 4 include women's centre in West Midlands and community energy organisation in London; CEO changes and board renewal with thanks to Chair Hazel Blears (8-year term ending)

Community & Social Justice England

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TL

2023

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change

Annual Report 2023

Six domestic abuse perpetrator programmes commissioned by GMCA Deputy Mayor; behaviour change programmes delivered across Greater Manchester; 80% reduction in domestic abuse incidents for those on programmes vs 30% for those not (Home Office)

Key Metric 1

New commercial counselling subsidiary launched; geographical expansion to UK-wide services; new programmes launched for different approaches to safe, healthy relationships

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Empirical research produced proving effectiveness of behaviour change work; new measures implemented to better support staff and people accessing services; geographical growth outside Greater Manchester

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Home Office data shows 80% reduction in domestic abuse incidents for those in TLC programmes vs 30% for those not in programmes; Drive programme targets high-risk/high-harm perpetrators via MARAC panels in Manchester, Salford, Bury and Rochdale

Health & Wellbeing Prevention

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CA

2025

Cardiff Metropolitan University — Enterprise Team

Entrepreneurship Annual Impact Report 2024-25

1,123 students empowered through in-curricular and extra-curricular enterprise activities in 2024-25; 44 curriculum-based sessions and 16 extra-curricular empower events delivered

Key Metric 1

Students across 5 schools: CSM (438), CSSHS (368), CSESP (122), CST (99), CSAD (96); 100% of Changemakers Challenge attendees more confident in abilities and social impact project planning

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Shortlisted for Times Higher Education Entrepreneurial University of the Year; Business Advice Hour drop-in sessions; 17 Meet and Mingle events with 100+ attendees and 9+ speakers; peer network launched May 2025

Key Metric 3

Changemakers attendee completed 6-week internship in India with Project Chakra; 'Work experience' option at Cardiff School of Technology embedded enterprise into Level 5 core module; student feedback: 'inspirational — made me see entrepreneurship is achievable and not so risky'

Education & Young People Young People

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RO

2026

Rory Peck Trust

Impact Report 2026

400+ freelance journalists supported across all programmes

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112 journalists received assistance grants from Crisis Fund or Therapy Fund

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223 journalists completed training workshops (hostile environment, first aid, digital security, psychological resilience)

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81 journalists received specialist safety advice via Safety Clinics in Amman and Johannesburg and online Risk & Safety Helpdesk

Community & Social Justice Mental Health

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LU

2025

Luminary Bakery (Luminary Ltd)

Impact Report 2025

100 women worked with across all four programme phases; 76% in Employment, Education, Volunteering or Training on completing two-year programme

Key Metric 1

80% of programme completers reached independence; 3,744 hours of 1:1 support delivered by Progression Support Workers; 166 training days delivered

Key Metric 2

41 Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering certificates awarded; 892 hours of apprenticeships at Luminary Bakery plus 720 hours with a corporate partner; 4 charity staff posts and 3 bakery posts filled by graduates

Key Metric 3

74% of graduates met their mentor five times or more; 42 women started second stage, 30 completed (71% completion rate); 35 mums supported — 61 children indirectly benefitted; 20 women worked with in-house therapist

Poverty & Inclusion Homelessness

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PA

2026

Pain Concern

Pain Concern's Impact 2025-2026

200 people helped per month via helpline (phone and email); 1,100 podcast listeners per month; 1,600 active HealthUnlocked community members with 280 new posts monthly

Key Metric 1

42 pain education sessions delivered across 5 Scottish health boards; 17,000 website visits monthly; 900 support resources downloaded monthly

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10,500 social media followers; 2,000 monthly newsletter recipients; Airing Pain podcast at 150 episodes — awarded Honorary BPS Membership to producer; Navigator Tool recognised by NICE

Key Metric 3

Pain education participant quote: 'I feel so much less isolated — I've come away with realistic action points that might make my life a little easier'; Navigator Tool used in pain clinics nationally; CPD credits awarded by Faculty of Pain Medicine for podcast

Health & Wellbeing Education

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