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Carers Worldwide: Our Impact in 2025

Carers Worldwide's Impact Report 2025 sets out a year of progress for unpaid carers in South Asia. Working with local partners, the charity supported 5,106 new unpaid carers, helped carers and family members access £4,072,736 of government support and saw 321 new Carers Groups formed. 5,255 carers and those they care for received health-based support, and £394,605 is now available in revolving funds for carers to take out microloans. In Bangladesh, 200 carers received Carers ID Cards in Dhaka, and in India the Government of Karnataka extended its Carers Allowance to more family carers.

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About

Carers Worldwide is a UK charity working with local partner organisations in South Asia to support unpaid family carers, who are often the poorest and most overlooked members of their communities, through carers groups, livelihoods, health support, access to government entitlements and advocacy for carer recognition.

Key Metrics

5,106 new unpaid carers supported in 2025
£4,072,736 worth of government support accessed by carers and family members
321 new Carers Groups formed

Key Outcomes

  • 5,255 carers and those they care for received health-based support
  • £394,605 now available in revolving funds for carers to take out microloans to start their own business
  • 200 carers in Dhaka received Carers ID Cards, with a rollout planned to reach 1,008 carers

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved