Health & Wellbeing

Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks

700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal

Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms

Total income £659,217 and total expenditure £674,216 (year ended 30 June 2025, charity no. 1137275); 10,252 individuals engaged across the 2024/25 season, with 9,713 being young people in schools

82% of participants reported positive impact on mental wellbeing; 84% on physical wellbeing; 82% on sense of community; 86% made new friends since joining

70% agreed they made positive changes to their life as a result of CUF activity; 63% of adult participants felt a strong sense of community/belonging, 2% above the national average; 78% agreed they feel more motivated to be physically active (Forever United older adults programme)

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries

22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million

733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards

1,107 families helped to have a holiday in 2023

£674,099 awarded in grants for accommodation, food and travel

46% of families supported had never had a holiday before

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25

1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training

997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this

8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23

35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals

40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained

349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024

£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million

32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission

Work with over 650 schools reaching over 350,000 children and young people

78% of children aged 5-11 and 91% of children aged 11-18 showed improved mental health after one-to-one counselling

40,000+ pupils accessed Place2Talk self-referral service — the highest since 2020