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Impact Report 2025/26

Action Hampshire supports voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations and communities in Hampshire to take collaborative action that improves health and wellbeing and increases fairness and inclusion. This report covers 2025/26, the second year of its impact measurement approach. Organisation type and charity status are not stated in the report and were not confirmed. Report contains few quantified outcome percentages; outcomes are largely qualitative. Contact email is the general address from the contact page (info@actionhampshire.org). Source: Action Hampshire Impact Report 2025-26 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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Hampshire Changemakers Awards; Raising Voices in Research projects improving inclusion of under-served communities in research; Healthwatch Hampshire engagement; Safe and Warm Communities energy awareness; Communities Against Cancer; the new Let's Be Smokefree project; Rural Housing Enabling; a National Lottery Community Fund programme; and membership and sector support including funding, consultation and event information

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Directly supported 450 VCFSE organisations and engaged over 6,000 people (an estimated figure that may include duplicates) in 2025/26
Key Metric 2 Provided over £210,000 in grants to around 200 VCFSE organisations (209 applied for or were supported with a funding application)
Key Metric 3 Delivered 161 events across Hampshire and beyond

Key Outcomes

  • VCFSE organisations reported that their community members felt heard by wider stakeholders and that their views and experiences mattered
  • Participants consistently valued the networking and partnership opportunities at Action Hampshire events and workshops, and reported an increased understanding of issues such as health and energy
  • From next year trustees have decided to offer Action Hampshire membership free at the point of use to VCFSE organisations

Geography

South East

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.