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BIGKID Foundation Impact Report 2025

BIGKID Foundation is a Brixton-based charity in its 18th year, working to end youth violence by providing safe spaces, sport, leadership programmes and transformative experiences for young people in Lambeth and South London. In 2025 it engaged 2,500+ young people across 25,000 hours of provision, placed 10 young people in GB national Flag Football squads including two European Champions, ran Breaking Barriers in partner schools with 77% of participants improving emotional wellbeing, and delivered a Summer Programme taking 110+ young people to Silverstone, Sky Studios and beyond. BIGKID won the Safer Lambeth Award at the Lambeth Civic Awards and was Highly Commended for two StreetGames awards from 460+ nominations.

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📋About

Open access youth clubs in Brixton providing safe after-school provision; Breaking Barriers school-based leadership and wellbeing programme for young people at risk of exclusion; flag football pathway from community to elite GB squads; annual sailing residential at Aldeburgh Yacht Club; Summer Programme (F1 at Silverstone, Sky Studios, Harry Potter theatre, Ascot golf, Super Bowl); HER Collective for young women; mental health film project for Movember; youth-led media team; Jack Petchey Internship Programme; peer volunteering and youth leadership development Custom geography from upload: Brixton, Lambeth, South London, UK

📊Key Metrics

2,500+ young people impacted from direct delivery; 10,000+ aggregate attendances amounting to almost 25,000 hours of engagement; 64% of young people were new to BIGKID in 2025 Key Metric 1
10 young people progressed into the Great Britain national Flag Football programme, competing across GB Under-21, Men's Gold, Women's Gold and Women's Silver squads; 2 young people crowned European Champions Key Metric 2
725+ young people engaged through youth clubs; 110+ young people on Summer Programme across 10+ unique trips and experiences; almost 200 young people on Breaking Barriers school programme Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 77% of Breaking Barriers participants improved emotional wellbeing; 68% improved social connectedness; 75% improved self-awareness; 71% improved attitude to learning
  • Named winners of the Safer Lambeth Award at the 2025 Lambeth Civic Awards; Highly Commended for two StreetGames awards from 460+ nominations; Omari named Mayor's Award Young Citizen of the Year and appointed Captain of GB Under-21 Flag Football squad
  • Fundraising events raised £16,000 (Aldeburgh dinner) and £5,000 (Cook Off with Michel Roux Jr); new 2-year strategic partnership signed with NFL UK; 3-year strategic partnership with King Charles III Charitable Fund reached

📍Geography

London

2023 Enhanced

Impact Report 2022-23

8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 1
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 2
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
Key Metric 3
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
2025 Enhanced

World YMCA Annual Report 2025

CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 1
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 2
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
Key Metric 3
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
2025 Enhanced

Allsorts Youth Project Annual Report 2023–24

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 1
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 2
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Key Metric 3
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities