Impact Report 2024/25

Argyle Community Trust is the official charity of Plymouth Argyle Football Club, based at Home Park in Plymouth, Devon. The 2024/25 Impact Report covers delivery across Plymouth and Cornwall, supporting 12,693 local people across health, education, sport and social action programmes. Highlights include winning the EFL Community Project of the Season award for ACTing With Children, a five-year Argyle FIT contract with Cornwall Council, and generating £70 of social value for every £1 spent.

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📋About

Premier League Primary Stars and EFL Joy of Moving (4,414 primary school students); Premier League Kicks and Youth Zone open-access sessions; Premier League Inspires; ACTing With Children (children with a parent in prison, winner of EFL Community Project of the Season 2025); Argyle FIT weight management (five-year Cornwall Council contract); Talk & Tackle men's mental health football sessions; cancer walking football; Project 35 food poverty initiative with Ginsters; Holiday Activities and Food; Ability Counts disability sport; Argyle4Autism; Extra Time Hub; Compassionate Café; Dementia Café; veteran support; Mum's Stay and Play

📊Key Metrics

12,693 local people supported; 1,049,668 contact hours delivered across all provisions; £70 of social value created for every £1 spent (total social value £70,423,462 in 2023/24) Key Metric 1
Total income £7,260,000 and total expenditure £4,740,000 for the year ended 30 June 2024 Key Metric 2
52% of participants from the 40% most deprived areas nationally; 38% of participants identify as female; 196 staff and 52 volunteers Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • ACTing With Children programme: 114 vulnerable young people supported; 86% reduction in school absenteeism; 75% now attend school regularly; 68 referrals to specialist support — winner of EFL Community Project of the Season 2025
  • Project 35: 50,508 food items shared with those facing food insecurity; 23,395 food items donated to children on holiday hunger programmes; 907 Christmas hampers delivered; 8,832 volunteer hours completed by Pledge 35 volunteers
  • 1,890 children in receipt of free school meals provided with 9,072 nutritious lunches through HAF, Time2Move and Fit and Fed programmes; 1,734kg lost on weight management programmes; over £26,500 raised through community fundraising events

📍Geography

South West

2025 Enhanced

Impact Review 2024/25

£3,112,419 raised to deliver projects in 2024/25; total income £2,920,000 and total expenditure £2,850,000 (year ended 31 August 2024)
Key Metric 1
28,692 people took part in activities; 307,544 visits to sessions; 17,793 sessions delivered
Key Metric 2
More than 16,000 young people engaged across early years and primary programmes; 34 Premier League Primary Stars partner schools; over 7,000 healthy meals provided on HAF camps
Key Metric 3
Blackpool FC Sports College A Team won the CEFA league title 2024/25; BFC School received 'Good' Ofsted rating in November 2024; Norbreck Primary Academy reached EFL Utilita Kids Cup National Final at Wembley, winning Regional Finals unbeaten
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

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
Key Metric 1
82% of participants reported positive impact on mental wellbeing; 84% on physical wellbeing; 82% on sense of community; 86% made new friends since joining
Key Metric 2
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)
Key Metric 3
56.7% of young people hardly ever or never feel lonely vs national average; 94% of participants feel welcome, safe and included; CUF participants ranked higher than Cambridge and UK averages for happiness, life satisfaction and worthwhile life
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2024-25

6,744 participants engaged across education, social inclusion, employability, heritage and health programmes in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
37,357 hours of positive activity delivered; £3.9 million in social value generated
Key Metric 2
4,805 pupils supported across 58 education settings; 300+ young people referred across six Engage hubs in Northampton, Kettering, Corby and Milton Keynes
Key Metric 3
89% of young people attending Engage programme made positive steps; 92% of employability learners moved to positive progression