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Global Impact Report 2025

Compassion in World Farming is a global charity working to end factory farming and improve farmed animal welfare through corporate engagement, policy advocacy and public campaigning. In 2024–25, backed by 1.6 million supporters, it secured welfare commitments covering 3.1 billion animals annually, achieved a landmark ban on GB live exports after 50 years of campaigning, gathered 1 million END.IT petition signatures, and triggered a UK Parliamentary debate on banning cages for farmed animals.

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About

Corporate engagement securing higher-welfare pledges from global food businesses; ChickenTrack, EggTrack and PigTrack monitoring programmes; Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards (Paris, 49 companies, 15+ countries); End the Cage Age parliamentary campaign; live exports campaigning; COP29 engagement; Factory Farming and Muck mapping tools; FOOD FOR GOOD podcast; Better Chicken Business Network (160+ members, 17 countries)

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 3.1 billion animals set to benefit every year across 40 countries through corporate welfare commitments secured with global food companies
Key Metric 2 END.IT campaign reached more than one million petition signatures by August 2025; global media reach of 6.17 billion across the campaign
Key Metric 3 1.6 million supporters and 100,000 donors active in 2024/25; 18.9 billion estimated opportunities to read about CIWF's work generated through media coverage

Key Outcomes

  • Historic ban on live animal exports from Great Britain for slaughter or fattening achieved after 50 years of campaigning — ending harrowing long-distance journeys for millions of animals
  • Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards 2024 celebrated 49 leading companies across 15+ countries, collectively set to transform the lives of over 500 million farmed animals annually
  • UK Parliament petition to ban cages for farmed animals passed 100,000 signatures, triggering a Parliamentary debate with cross-party support in June 2025

Geography

International

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