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Impact Report 2025-2026

Bristol Refugee Rights' Impact Report 2025-2026 shows how the charity, shaped by people seeking asylum, supported 1,519 people across all its services, from weekly Welcome Centre drop-ins to advice and children's support. 445 people were supported by its Hotel Outreach project, and the charity supported 46 children and young people who were homeless or in unsafe accommodation. Members said they felt welcomed, less stressed and better connected to services.

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About

Bristol Refugee Rights is a Bristol charity working with and for people seeking asylum and refugees, offering a Welcome Centre, advice, hotel outreach, children and young people's support and member-led groups, with people with lived experience of forced migration in its governance and staff.

Key Metrics

1,519 people supported across all services
445 people supported by the Hotel Outreach project
46 children and young people supported who were homeless or in unsafe accommodation

Key Outcomes

  • 97% felt welcomed and supported by staff and volunteers
  • 92% felt less stressed because of Bristol Refugee Rights
  • Of 43 children going through age disputes, 25 cases were resolved

Geography

South West

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities