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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

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

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

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...
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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
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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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
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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