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Climate Outreach Impact Report 2025: Shaping the climate conversation

Climate Outreach's Impact Report 2025 covers the charity's 20th year, in which it updated its flagship research, Britain Talks Climate & Nature, launched in September 2025 with a speech by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. By leading the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) Coalition, it played a pivotal role in developing the Government's public engagement plan, Energising Britain. It gathered over 100 people from the climate, community and funding sectors during London Climate Action Week, and its Climate Visuals image library grew to over 14,000 users worldwide, with images downloaded over 4,000 times.

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About

Climate Outreach is a UK charity that works to ground climate communication in research about what people across the country think and feel about climate and nature. Through research such as Britain Talks Climate & Nature, the Climate Visuals photo library, workshops and policy work, it helps government, campaigners and organisations engage people from all backgrounds in climate action.

Key Metrics

14,000+ users of the Climate Visuals image library worldwide
4,000+ downloads of images from the Climate Visuals library
100+ people from the climate, community and funding sectors gathered at its London Climate Action Week event

Key Outcomes

  • Played a pivotal role in the development of the Government's public engagement plan, Energising Britain
  • Updated Britain Talks Climate & Nature, its flagship research on what people across Britain think and feel about climate and nature
  • Climate Visuals images published by The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, UNFCCC and the World Resources Institute

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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5,999 active volunteers contributed 776,242 hours in 2025/26
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137 winter maintenance projects across 45 canals; 109 lock gates replaced
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101,640 children participated in Explorers/STEM outdoor learning, including 67,896 water-safety participants
Over 80% of the network kept fully open despite drought.
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The Eco-Schools programme reached over 1.4 million pupils, with 2,162 schools awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag in 2024/25
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326,000 volunteers pledged to the Great British Spring Clean, picking up 425,626 bags of rubbish, supported by 288 local authorities and parish councils
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2,227 Green Flag Awards given to parks and green spaces in the UK; 151 beaches given a Blue Flag and/or Seaside Award
98.3% of educators felt the Eco-Schools programme significantly supports young people's development of 'green skills'
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First known breeding success of spoonbills in the Norfolk Broads in around 400 years, recorded at Hickling Broads and Marshes
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Over 60 nature reserves managed across Norfolk, with land owned or managed for wildlife exceeding 5,000 hectares
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1,500 volunteers helped protect wildlife across the county during the year
New urban nature reserve co-designed with the local community, expanding accessible green space in Norfolk
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61,819 native oysters deployed across UK restoration projects in 2024/25
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15,064 people participated in the Beachwatch beach clean programme, submitting 1,256 litter surveys — the highest in the programme's 31-year history
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17,613 young people engaged through in-person or online youth programme sessions
£11.5 billion Ofwat investment package secured for storm overflow cuts in England and Wales following sustained MCS advocacy