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Impact Report 2025

Cerebra supports children with brain conditions and their families through sleep advice, a specialist library, legal-rights help, research and bespoke assistive equipment. Its 2025 impact report records 466 sleep-service families, 387 library families and 122 families supported by the Innovation Centre. Family feedback describes greater confidence, better support for children's needs and new opportunities to participate.

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Cerebra provides practical support for children with brain conditions and the families who care for them. Its Sleep Advice Service offers tailored advice and training, while a free specialist library lends books and sensory toys. The Legal Rights Service helps families seek the health, education and social-care support they need. Research and parent guides make information accessible, and the Innovation Centre designs bespoke equipment that helps children join in activities and explore new possibilities.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 466 families supported by Sleep Advice Service in 2025
Key Metric 2 387 families borrowed specialist books and toys from the Library
Key Metric 3 122 Innovation Centre families; 20 new bespoke products designed and built

Key Outcomes

  • 88% of sleep-service families reported improved knowledge and confidence managing their child's sleep.
  • 93% of library respondents said borrowing helped meet their child's needs.
  • 97 families received legal-rights support; testimony describes improved access to services and advocacy confidence.

Geography

UK-Wide

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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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
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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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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