Health & Wellbeing

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

£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

~100 young people with additional requirements engaged weekly through Super 1s hubs across 7 locations (free to attend); Walking Cricket launched county-wide with approx. 100 participants in Year 1

Fortnightly Walkers and Talkers group at Cooper Associates County Ground with Somerset cricketing legends Q&As; 58 sessions delivered at local cricket clubs using club volunteers trained/bursaried by Foundation

First 12 charities funded include: CAST, Farms for City Children, Feeding Britain, FoodCycle, Phab, Sport in Mind, Student Minds, Support Dogs, Tapping House, The Brain Charity, Forest of Avon, The Royal Countryside Fund

Support Dogs received £15,000 to fund an instructor working with 10 dogs on Disability Assistance Programme; Health Lottery Foundation operating from January 2025 (previously The Health Lottery operated as main structure); six themes for future grant rounds covering health and wellbeing across Great Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strong year for research strategy implementation — increase in quality of responses to National Funding Call; children's Cancer Centre building plans and permissions progressed; GOSH Learning Academy funding released for education and development

170% increase in income from digital channels in Christmas campaign; public appeal for Children's Cancer Centre launched via TCS London Marathon charity of the year partnership; hardship fund launched for hospital staff and families during cost-of-living crisis

All existing funding commitments maintained through pandemic; COVID-19 Emergency Appeal helped children, families and staff; hospital pivot to COVID-19 support while maintaining rare disease treatment; research into COVID-19 impact on children funded

Innovative fundraising developed; digital capabilities accelerated; organisational redesign undertaken; Citizens Advice partnership for family financial support; plan to launch Children's Cancer Centre fundraising appeal in 2022-23