Health & Wellbeing

89% of service users reported feeling safer, 84% emotionally healthier and 86% more resilient after working with Ormiston Families — achieved across 5,129 families and 21,774 sessions, despite a 20% income reduction, by strengthening partnerships, improving back-office systems and expanding the Mpower service into Peterborough and a new statutory commissioning model in Norfolk

Of 40 participants in Mindful Yoga courses at 2 women's prisons, 84% experienced meaningful improvement in mental wellbeing (measured using the validated Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale), with the proportion reporting low mental wellbeing falling from 69% to 5% and high mental wellbeing rising from 0% to 18%

Social prescribing partnership workshops (funded by National Lottery Community Fund) delivered 12 sessions to 12 participants with long-term mental health conditions including depression, anxiety and PTSD — with 100% reporting they met new people, learned new skills and had opportunities to be creative, and several participants forming self-led creative groups continuing independently after the programme

Momentum guided self-help programme improved overall participant outcomes from 50% to 83% across the course of the programme for 374 people with binge eating disorder, reflecting meaningful gains in motivation, confidence and recovery-related knowledge — delivered as a clinically-recommended intervention at no cost to participants

Reading Well programme users reported 92% finding their books helpful and 81% saying their book helped them understand more about their health needs — addressing poor mental health in 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 5 children and young people through a low-cost, scalable bibliotherapy model available via public libraries

Sport's direct GVA contribution to the Welsh economy reached £1.9 billion (£2.9 billion including indirect impact), up from £1.195 billion in previous estimates — demonstrating significant sector growth

72% of children and young people reported improved mental wellbeing since attending Sport in Mind sessions, with 91% more likely to be physically active outside of sessions — delivered in partnership with the NHS and co-designed by people with lived experience

£19.5 million Go! London Fund launched in partnership with the Mayor of London, Sport England, London Marathon Events and London Marathon Foundation — the capital's largest ever community sports fund — targeting underserved young Londoners over at least five years