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Bath Mind Impact Report 2025/26

Bath Mind's 2025/26 impact report sets out how the local mental health charity supported people across Bath and North East Somerset during a year of rising mental health needs, cost of living pressures and widening health inequalities.

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About

Bath Mind is a local independent mental health charity providing information, activities, advice and support so that nobody in Bath and North East Somerset faces a mental health problem alone.

Key Metrics

People supported 2,124 people supported through Bath Mind services in 2025/26, including 30,058 calls, emails, text messages and face-to-face contacts.
Crisis support visits 2,044 visits to the Breathing Space crisis support hub in 2025/26, an increase of 16% on the previous year.
Welfare benefits secured £727,093 in welfare benefits secured for people supported by Bath Mind in 2025/26.
Food saved from landfill 4,386kg of food saved from landfill and shared with people in need in 2025/26.

Key Outcomes

  • People experiencing mental health challenges across B&NES accessed compassionate, innovative support so that no one faced a mental health problem alone.

Geography

South West

Impact Snapshot
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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...
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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...
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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
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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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
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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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
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
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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