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Impact Report 2024-2025

Bromley Third Sector Enterprise (BTSE, charity no. 1192322) manages Bromley Well, an early intervention health and wellbeing service commissioned by the London Borough of Bromley and NHS South East London ICB. The 2024-25 Impact Report covers 12,116 clients supported — a 20% year-on-year increase — with £4.75 million in benefits and grants secured for residents, 37,000 volunteer hours and 55,000 adult Bromley residents supported since 2017.

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About

Single point of access contact centre (freephone 0808 278 7898); Information, Legal Advice and Guidance (benefits, debt, housing, cost of living, consumer rights); Forms Completion Service (PIP, DLA, blue badge, carers allowance, ESA, Universal Credit); Older People's Advice Service (65+, pensions, benefits, housing); Long-Term Health Conditions service (arthritis, fibromyalgia, long Covid, chronic pain, HIV, diabetes, heart disease; 124 peer support sessions, 18 eight-week courses); Befriending Service (319 clients, 3,455 attendees across 271 hub sessions, 3,002 volunteer hours); Employment and Education (229 clients, 75 secured volunteering, 47 paid employment); Take Home and Settle hospital discharge service (1,475 clients, 93% collected within 30 minutes); Post Discharge Settling Service (381 clients, 79% more confident managing health after 6 weeks); Hospital Aftercare (158 clients, 226% of target jobs completed); Handyperson Service; Carers Support (adult, mental health, mutual, young carers aged 4-19; 1,311 clients, 878 new referrals); Learning Difficulties and Physical Disabilities services

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Total income £2,828,404 and total expenditure £2,741,959 (year ended 31 March 2025, charity no. 1192322); £4.75 million in benefits and grants claimed for residents during 2024-25, including over £2 million via the forms completion service
Key Metric 2 12,116 clients supported in 2024-25 — a 20% increase on 2023-24; 16,843 referrals received; 37,000 volunteer hours contributed; 86% of clients have a disability
Key Metric 3 For every £1 spent on the Forms Completion Service, approximately £145 is returned to the local economy; 55,000 Bromley adult residents supported since Bromley Well began in 2017 — equivalent to 1 in 5 adult residents

Key Outcomes

  • 99% of Long-Term Health Conditions clients feel more confident using self-care techniques; 100% would recommend the service; 92% of physical disabilities clients report improved wellbeing; 91% report improved independence
  • 100% of befriending clients feel less isolated and more engaged in social activities; 94% of learning difficulties clients report improved wellbeing; 94% report improved independence; website redesign increased visits by a third
  • Mental Health First Aid training delivered to 62 participants from partners and wider voluntary sector via Innovation Fund grant; volunteer Carol helped one resident secure over £21,000 in backdated ESA; Carers Trust 'Excellence for Carers' Award held; BTSE comprises Age UK Bromley & Greenwich, Bromley Mencap, Citizens Advice Bromley, Community Links Bromley and South East London Mind

Geography

London

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
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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
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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
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
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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