Impact Report 2024-25

Clear Sky Children's Charity is an Oxfordshire-based registered charity founded in 2010, delivering Play and Creative Arts Therapy to vulnerable children in schools and providing parenting, family support and professional training programmes. In its 15th anniversary year (2024/25), Clear Sky supported 2,268+ children across 43 schools, trained 412 professionals in accredited courses — a 62% increase — and launched its Emotionally Healthy Schools platform. Its reach now extends to Ireland, Singapore and Australia through licensed partners.

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📋About

One-to-one Play and Creative Arts Therapy in 43 Oxfordshire schools; Emotionally Healthy Schools online platform for whole-school mental health; parenting and family support programmes; professional CPD training; Institute for Play and Attachment (IPA) online hub; licensed partner network in Ireland, Singapore and UK regions

📊Key Metrics

2,268+ children and young people supported by a Clear Sky therapist in 2024/25 Key Metric 1
2,268+ therapy sessions delivered between September 2024 and August 2025; over 14,900 sessions in the last 8 years Key Metric 2
412 professionals trained in CPD-accredited practitioner courses in 2024/25 — a 62% increase on the previous year Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Exceeded £40,000 fundraising target in 2024/25 through events, corporate donations, trusts and grants
  • 14 Clear Sky therapists worked across 43 Oxfordshire schools; 50+ schools accessing the Emotionally Healthy Schools framework
  • 15th anniversary year: 135+ Attachment Play Practitioners in searchable directory supporting families across the UK and internationally

📍Geography

South East

2024 Enhanced

Impact Report 2024

Work with over 650 schools reaching over 350,000 children and young people
Key Metric 1
78% of children aged 5-11 and 91% of children aged 11-18 showed improved mental health after one-to-one counselling
Key Metric 2
40,000+ pupils accessed Place2Talk self-referral service — the highest since 2020
Key Metric 3
9,355 participants completed the Mental Health Champions Foundation programme; nearly 90,000 people have taken part since launch
2025 Enhanced

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024-25

Over 66,000 people reached through support services in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
Nearly 38,000 people received personalised support from local Stroke Support Coordinators
Key Metric 2
£31.4 million raised in fundraised income — the charity's best-ever fundraising year
Key Metric 3
434 active Stroke Support Groups helping around 13,000 stroke survivors and families
2025 Enhanced

Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25

71,703 support activities delivered for bereaved people in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
Over 28,000 calls and emails answered by the national Cruse Helpline
Key Metric 2
Over 24,000 adults, children and young people supported through one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 3
Over 3,000 people supported through Cruse Bereavement Groups, with evidence of improved wellbeing and reduced isolation