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Strategy & Impact Report 2025

Breakout Youth provides confidential support groups and activities for LGBTQ+ young people aged 11-25 across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, alongside professional training on sexuality and gender identity. The charity runs regular groups in five locations, extending support into rural areas where dedicated LGBTQ+ youth provision is otherwise scarce.

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About

Regular confidential youth groups; one-to-one support for young people feeling isolated or confused about sexuality or gender identity; local activities and events; bespoke training for professionals on sexuality, homophobia, gender and transphobia

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Confidential youth groups run regularly across Southampton, Basingstoke, Andover, the New Forest and the Isle of Wight
Key Metric 2 Total income of £313,403 in the year to March 2025, supporting delivery across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Key Metric 3 Supports young people aged 11-25 who are LGBTQ+ or questioning their sexuality or gender identity

Key Outcomes

  • Provides a safe, consistent space for LGBTQ+ young people to socialise and build peer support networks across a wide rural and urban catchment
  • Delivers professional training to schools and youth organisations to improve understanding of LGBTQ+ young people's needs
  • Operates across five locations, extending reach into rural Hampshire and the Isle of Wight where LGBTQ+ youth provision is otherwise limited

Geography

South East

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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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