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Co-op Foundation Impact Report 2025

Co-op Foundation's Impact Report 2025 describes a year of building communities of the future together, shaped by its Future Communities Collective of young people who help decide its grant making. In 2025 the Foundation supported 136 partners with funding paid directly and through delivery partners to a total value of almost £3 million, funded 66 Young Gamechangers aged 10-25 working across the UK, continued shifting power to young people, ran its partnership with Co-op Live, and campaigned on issues Co-op members care about, with partner spotlights including Romano Lav.

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Co-op Foundation is the Co-op's charity, funding and supporting young people and communities across the UK to build a fairer future, with young people involved in its grant decisions.

Key Metrics

136 partners supported in 2025
Almost £3 million total funding value
66 Young Gamechangers (aged 10-25) funded

Key Outcomes

  • Young people with lived experience shaping grant-making decisions
  • Youth leadership funded across the UK
  • Campaign work with partners on issues Co-op members care about

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities