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Citizens Advice Sheffield Impact Report 2024/25

Citizens Advice Sheffield is a large independent advice and advocacy charity serving Sheffield. In 2024/25 the charity supported 20,021 individuals across 98,273 advice issues — nearly 5 issues per person — securing £19,051,506 in income and writing off £2,277,428 in debt. Income exceeded £6 million. The charity runs specialist services including Deaf Advice (BSL-first), hospital-embedded advice across 8 departments, digital inclusion courses, and statutory advocacy with 2,288 referrals.

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Advice impact: 20,021 clients, 98,273 issues, £19m+ income secured, £2.28m debt written off; specialist services including hospital advice (1,392 people across 8 departments) and Deaf Advice (109 clients, BSL-first, serving hearing-impaired people across Yorkshire and Cumbria) Custom geography from upload: Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 20,021 advice clients; 98,273 advice issues; 2,288 advocacy referrals; 1,392 people helped in hospitals; 109 Deaf Advice clients across 659 issues; 247 digital course completions; 484 attendees at 79 community training sessions
Key Metric 2 Staff and volunteers across advice, advocacy, hospital, Deaf Advice, digital, energy and community training teams; volunteer adviser network including hospital outreach and foodbank venues; income over £6 million with 85% spent on staff
Key Metric 3 Total income: over £6 million (85% spent on staff); £19,051,506 income secured for clients; £2,277,428 debt written off; energy team: £2,430.25 income gained, £382,510 debt written off, 1,100 fuel vouchers issued; funders include British Gas Energy Trust, Northern Powergrid, Northern Gas Networks, National Energy Action, National Lottery, Sheffield City Council

Key Outcomes

  • Advocacy: 2,288 referrals across statutory, generic, parenting and self/peer advocacy; services cover Independent Mental Health Advocacy, Care Act, DOLS, NHS Complaints, Learning Disability, Deaf and new Parenting Advocacy; 3 Self and Peer Advocacy Networks launched
  • Community and social policy: 79 training sessions to 484 staff at 98 organisations; 247 digital inclusion course completions (98% completion rate); Pension Credit campaign secured 136% increase in advice on Winter Fuel Allowance; BBC Breakfast and Radio Sheffield appearances; MP engagement on PIP reforms and immigration

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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
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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