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Young People's Programmes Impact Report 2024/25

Change Mental Health delivers early-intervention mental health education across Scottish schools, colleges and community youth settings through its Bloom, Your Resilience and Me & Money programmes. In 2024/25 it engaged 1,510 young people directly, moved to a more youth-led co-delivery model, and launched a new resilience programme for parents and carers.

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Bloom early-intervention mental health training for schools and colleges; Your Resilience community-based resilience programme for youth settings; Me & Money financial wellbeing workshops; new Your Resilience for Parents and Carers programme; youth-led co-design model

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,510 young people engaged across Scotland through Young People's Programmes in 2024/25
Key Metric 2 131 workshops delivered in partnership with 32 partner organisations, training 88 staff
Key Metric 3 894 young people reached through the Me & Money financial wellbeing programme

Key Outcomes

  • Understanding of how to look after their own mental health rose from 46% to 86% among Bloom participants
  • 68% of Your Resilience participants 'felt resilient' post-programme, a 30% increase from the 37% baseline
  • Parents' confidence discussing mental health with their child rose from 58% to 93% after the new Parents and Carers programme

Geography

Scotland

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
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£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