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Annual Report 2024-2025

Croydon Mencap supports people with learning disabilities and their families across Croydon. In 2024-25 the charity grew by 63%, with total income reaching £1.2m. Key highlights include 60 people supported into employment or voluntary roles, 36,179 hours of activities delivered through the Enterprise Lounge, and 8 people with learning disabilities employed as energy ambassadors through a new SGN-funded campaign. The charity also purchased its permanent home.

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About

Enterprise Lounge day service; carers support and advice; Out and About activities; Saturday Club; Volunteer Buddies; Support to Live; energy advice; internet safety training; supported employment and internships

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 60 people with learning disabilities supported into employment or voluntary roles
Key Metric 2 36,179 hours of activities delivered through the Enterprise Lounge
Key Metric 3 8 people with learning disabilities employed as energy ambassadors via SGN-funded campaign

Key Outcomes

  • Organisation grew by 63% in 2024-25, with total income rising to £1,209,371 (up from £740,831 the prior year)
  • 60 people with learning disabilities supported into employment or voluntary roles through the Learning Disability Alliance partnership
  • 42 members registered at the Enterprise Lounge, with 22 supported on site every day on average across 36,179 hours of activities

Geography

London

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...
Key Metric 2
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
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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Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£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