Impact Report 2025

CHASE Africa is a UK charity supporting local partners to deliver healthcare and family planning to remote rural communities across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Their 2025 Impact Report — marking 25 years — covers 1.7 million attendances at health sessions, 397,000 basic healthcare services and 233,000 family planning services, all exceeding targets. Key innovations include the Backpack Nurse model, integrated health-conservation programmes and a first-ever BBC Radio 4 Appeal. The year was shaped by severe international aid cuts affecting health systems across East Africa.

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📋About

Backpack Nurse mobile outreach, community health worker training, adolescent and youth SRH services, HIV prevention, family planning, cancer screening, antenatal care, menstrual health, quality improvement for health facilities, integrated health and conservation programmes, partner forum and network learning

📊Key Metrics

1,718,820 attendances at information and awareness-raising sessions (target: 1,500,000) — including 722,567 adolescents Key Metric 1
397,227 basic healthcare services for women and children delivered (target: 300,000) Key Metric 2
233,277 family planning services delivered; 37% first-time users; 15 local partners across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 25th anniversary year; BBC Radio 4 Appeal and Big Give campaigns launched; first women's dialogue in Olderkesi on the Kenya-Tanzania border
  • 60 health facility staff trained on Quality Improvement in Kajiado County; 35 Community Health Assistants trained in Baringo; 120 healthcare providers trained in Meru County on adolescent SRH
  • New integrated health and conservation projects launched in Tanzania with MWEDO, Honeyguide Foundation and Makame Wildlife Management Area reaching 26,000 people; HIV project expanded in Uganda

📍Geography

International

2025 Enhanced

Annual Review April 2024 to March 2025

Social care services provided to thousands of people with learning disabilities; information and advice service caseloads growing in complexity; financial resilience rebuilt ahead of NI cost pressures
Key Metric 1
Omaze Yorkshire House Draw partnership raised £3.9m in 6 weeks with Jodie Whittaker as ambassador; awareness of people with learning disability significantly boosted through campaign
Key Metric 2
Voices Council (led by people with learning disabilities) challenged decisions on service handbacks, agency staffing and benefits access; new strategy to 2030 under development; new CEO Jon Sparkes OBE joined June 2024
Key Metric 3
Rebuilt financial resilience ahead of NI cost increases — 'more fortunate than many in the sector'; 80th anniversary approaching; new CEO appointed to lead strategy development
2024 Enhanced

Annual Report and Accounts 2024

518 new guide dog partnerships created in 2024 — 10% increase beating projections; 1,379 new puppies from breeding programme; 400th buddy dog partnership matched
Key Metric 1
17,500+ volunteers giving 12 million+ volunteer hours collectively; 2,400+ volunteers looked after dogs; 7,000+ training sessions on tech, travel and life skills delivered by Vision Rehabilitation Specialists
Key Metric 2
£47m raised through Sponsor a Puppy; £3.1m from raffles; £8.3m increased income from gifts in Wills; 3.45 million clicks to digital information and advice content; 5,900 visits to new Tech Selector assistive tech review tool
Key Metric 3
1,864 children and family members attended My Time to Play sessions; 6,852 large-print books delivered; 5,991 habilitation sessions completed to help children learn essential skills; 432,817 online learners accessing digital content
2025 Enhanced

Annual Report 2024-25

202,694 people supported across 270 locations; 74,070 in drug and alcohol; 102,531 in mental health; 1,035 in learning disability; turnover £191.9m
Key Metric 1
96% of regulated services rated Good or Outstanding by CQC; 12,456 naloxone kits dispensed (5.6% increase); 11,405 Hepatitis C tests (59% increase); 7,448 FibroScans (300% increase)
Key Metric 2
234 peer mentors; 82 volunteers; 5,194 colleagues (60% with lived experience); £7.79m invested in local VCSE organisations; £131.87m social value from local employment
Key Metric 3
87% of people supported have overall positive experience; 90% feel safe; 774/1,063 (72%) in Birmingham social prescribing service achieved goals across health, community, emotional and employment domains; new Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership reached over 160 staff in year one