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CALM Trustees' Report & Consolidated Financial Statements 2024-25

CALM's 2024-25 annual report covers a landmark year for the suicide prevention charity. Its frontline services, a helpline staffed by paid professionals and a suite of digital support including CALM Clubs, were used over 675,000 times. The helpline team delivered 98,346 conversations across phone, livechat and WhatsApp, and in Q4 achieved an answer rate of 83%, a 30% increase on the previous year. Nearly 400,000 users accessed its digital tools, the new C.A.R.E. Kit for trusted adults reached 178,646 users, and the Missed Birthdays campaign, with 6,929 balloons each representing a young person lost to suicide, reached 9 million people on social media.

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About

CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, is a UK suicide prevention charity that runs a free, confidential helpline via phone, livechat and WhatsApp, digital support and campaigns, with a mission to help people end their misery, not their lives.

Key Metrics

98,346 helpline conversations across phone, livechat and WhatsApp
675,000+ uses of CALM's frontline services across 2024/25
83% helpline answer rate in Q4, a 30% increase on the previous year

Key Outcomes

  • 25% increase in calls about suicidal thoughts and feelings as the helpline was targeted at those who need it most
  • Helpline staff consistently achieve a 94% quality assurance score, well above the 85% sector benchmark
  • The C.A.R.E. Kit online learning tool upskilled trusted adults in youth suicide prevention, reaching 178,646 users

Geography

UK-Wide

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...
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
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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
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
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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