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2025

Impact Report 2024/25

791 million unique visits; 10.3 million people per month visited canals and towpaths in 2024-25; 8.9 million people live within 10-15 minute walk of the network
Key Metric 1
5,473 volunteers gave 747,518 hours; 103,000+ children attended outdoor learning sessions; 69,000+ people attended water safety sessions; 70,000+ hours of community payback at 36 sites
Key Metric 2
£1.1bn annual savings to NHS from active waterway use (Valuing Our Waterways 2024); £11.7bn annual economic contribution supporting 230,000 jobs; 80%+ of network kept open through extreme weather
Key Metric 3
2025 NGO Impact Award winners in Unlocking Biodiversity; 741 miles of Green Flag awarded canals; 68 SSSIs and 1,500 non-statutory wildlife sites protected; 450 species recorded on Regent's Canal; 900+ species on Manchester's canals
2025

Impact Report 2020-2025

Over £1.2 million in direct grants awarded since 2020; 87 projects supported; 43 project partners worked with (as of April 2025)
Key Metric 1
Member of Conservation Collective — global network of local foundations funding effective grassroots nature-based solutions; focus on landscape regeneration, river restoration and marine conservation
Key Metric 2
Specialist in identifying innovative grassroots nature-based solutions in Devon to tackle the climate and nature crisis; Devon is home to two coastlines, two moors and diverse wetlands, woodlands, meadows and rivers
Key Metric 3
Nature rebounds quickly given the right conditions — Devon's growing movement of nature restoration workers shows the grassroots model works; nature-based solutions sequester carbon, increase biodiversity, prevent flooding and droughts and offer opportunities for community connection
2025

Impact Report 2023-2025

27,000 applicants over three training series (2023, 2024, 2025); 5,400 young people trained; 65% from most affected people and areas (MAPA); 21% Indigenous youth
Key Metric 1
89% of participants strengthened international climate policy knowledge; 77% felt more confident to advocate in UNFCCC forums; 60% credited GYCT for their success in international climate policy
Key Metric 2
£36,000 in youth bursaries distributed to fund COP attendance; 100,000+ YouTube views; 6 languages of live interpretation; University of Oxford Vice Chancellor's Award for Environmental Sustainability 2024
Key Metric 3
Climate Guidebook shortlisted for Re-Earth Initiative; 81% of 2024 participants interested in applying to University of Oxford; GYC co-director Agustín Ocaña and participants represented Rwanda, Colombia, Uganda at international climate forums
2025

Annual Report 2024-2025

25.9 million visits to Trust properties in 2024-25 (up from 25.3m in 2023-24); 5.35 million individual members (2.61 million memberships)
Key Metric 1
£221.2m total spend on property projects and acquisitions (up from £193.4m); £7.3m invested at Sandilands to convert 30-hectare former golf course into wetland nature reserve
Key Metric 2
Record fundraising appeals, gifts and grants in 2024-25; 5% increase in paying visitor numbers; 896 miles of coastline and ~250,000 hectares of land protected
Key Metric 3
New 10-year strategy People and Nature Thriving launched January 2025; RHS Chelsea Flower Show Octavia Hill Garden won Silver Gilt Medal, Children's Choice and People's Choice awards; partnership with Defra, English Community Forests and Woodland Trust to plant 2 million trees on Trust land over 5 years
2025

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024/25

Charitable expenditure £1.916 billion in 2024-25 — up 20% from £1.58bn; £5.2bn spent since 2022 toward £16bn decade plan (2022-2032)
Key Metric 1
711 grants awarded worth £1.3bn from 4,289 applications; 2,723 active grants at 1,443 organisations across 133 countries with total active value of £7.3bn
Key Metric 2
Investment portfolio grew to £39.9bn (10.2% total return, 6.4% after inflation); total funds £35.7bn; spending rise driven by renewals of Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome, Mahidol Oxford Research Unit and co-funding of UK Health Data Research Service
Key Metric 3
First healthy babies born in UK through mitochondrial donation — Wellcome funded research, public engagement that changed UK law, and clinical trial; new oral antibiotic for plague found as effective as injection in Madagascar trials; digital interventions for mental health led in UK
2025

Impact Report 2024-2025

13.6 million guests and donors served; 80.5 million lbs of goods diverted from landfill; 95% of donated textiles make a tangible impact (less than 5% to landfill)
Key Metric 1
816,635 tonnes of carbon emissions displaced; 135,192 kilolitres of water saved; equivalent to planting 37.5 million trees or removing 177,529 cars from the road
Key Metric 2
Over $1 million raised through GoodWorks@Work campaigns including $573,308 Christmas Kettle, $167,787 Send a Kid to Camp, $96,021 Fight for Freedom (modern slavery), $102,464 Brighter Days; 110 donation drives collected 183,513 lbs of goods
Key Metric 3
The Salvation Army in Canada: 3 million visits for assistance last year; 4.8 million community and shelter meals distributed; 345,000 Christmas assistance visits; 8,350 shelter/addictions/detox/mental health beds; 73 individuals removed from human trafficking situations; 2,900 children and teens attended summer camps
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2025

Social and Environmental Impact Report 2024-25

6.9 million customers served in 2024-25 (up 15%); 77,000 tonnes textiles and 25,000 tonnes other items collected; 505,000 tonnes carbon emissions avoided
Key Metric 1
£5.43m raised for The Salvation Army UK and Ireland; £2.87m raised for partner charities, local authorities, schools and clubs; 6,663 free clothing vouchers distributed (up 28%)
Key Metric 2
1,357 paid colleagues; 6,091 volunteers; 170 volunteers moved into paid employment; 6% reduction in operational carbon emissions vs 2019-20 baseline; Project Re:claim won Recycler of the Year at Plastics Industry Awards 2024
Key Metric 3
Outstanding Charity Retailer of the Year 2024 (Charity Retail Association); Environment and Sustainability Award (CRA 2024); Social Value Award 2025; Recycler of the Year (Plastics Industry Awards 2024); 2 Star Outstanding Employer Accreditation (Best Companies Ltd); Best Benefits Launch/Relaunch Award (Reward Gateway 2024)
2024

Annual Report 2023/24

1,039 tonnes of food redistributed (883 surplus); equivalent to 2.47 million meals provided to vulnerable people
Key Metric 1
2,186.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions saved; 201 charities and community organisations supported across South and West Wales; 67 organisations supported in North Wales via FareShare Merseyside
Key Metric 2
133 volunteers gave 13,973 hours; 31 corporate volunteer days hosted; Investing in Volunteers accreditation achieved for first time
Key Metric 3
86% of member organisations report increased demand for services; 82% seeing people accessing support for the first time; 72% say FareShare Cymru food enabled them to support more people
2024

Impact Report 2023/24

32,000+ children reached across core programmes; 20,315 children supported to access real working farms
Key Metric 1
41.8% of children in partner schools meet EVER6 Free School Meals criteria (national average 26.3%) — demonstrating focus on highest-disadvantage communities
Key Metric 2
95% of children felt farms were important after their visit (up 11% on prior year); 100% of teachers said programmes gave pupils new opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have accessed
Key Metric 3
Programmes target children least likely to access green space — particularly those in urban deprivation, with SEND, or facing other barriers to outdoor experience