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Alive Activities Impact Report 2025-26

Alive Activities' Impact Report 2025-26 shows the Bristol charity lighting up later life for 6,385 older people, with 4,692 care home attendances, dementia-friendly allotments supporting 730 people including 271 people living with dementia, and growing community and intergenerational programmes.

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About

Alive Activities is a Bristol charity dedicated to improving the lives of older people and those living with dementia through care home activity sessions, dementia-friendly allotments, meeting centres and intergenerational projects.

Key Metrics

Older people reached 6,385 older people reached across Alive's programmes in 2025-26
Care home sessions 4,692 attendances at care home activity sessions through a diverse programme
Allotment support 730 people supported at dementia-friendly allotments, including 271 people living with dementia and 284 carers
Intergenerational linking 231 older people brought together through intergenerational projects during 2025-26

Key Outcomes

  • 6,385 older people supported to live better later lives through activity, gardening and community connection.
  • 730 people, including 271 living with dementia and 284 carers, supported through therapeutic horticulture at Bristol allotments.
  • 100% of interviewed participants said they would recommend Alive's programmes.

Geography

South West

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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...
Key Metric 2
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...
Key Metric 3
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...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022