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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

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

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

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
Impact Snapshot
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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