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Dementia Carers Count Impact Report 2025

Dementia Carers Count supports, advocates and campaigns for dementia carers across the UK so no one feels isolated, invisible or alone. Its Impact Report 2025 shows over 8,500 dementia carers supported, with 95% of surveyed carers saying they were better able to cope thanks to its support.

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About

Dementia Carers Count is a UK charity supporting, advocating and campaigning for dementia carers so no one feels isolated, invisible or alone. It provides specialist counselling, peer support groups, online help and information, and campaigns for the rights and recognition of dementia carers.

Key Metrics

Dementia carers supported Over 8,500 dementia carers supported in 2025.
Better able to cope 95% of carers responding to the charity's survey said they were better able to cope thanks to its support.
Counselling hours Over 1,339 hours of counselling delivered for carers struggling with the intense emotions of caring for someone with dementia.
Peer support hours Over 4,226 hours of person-to-person peer support, connecting dementia carers with each other.

Key Outcomes

  • Over 8,500 dementia carers received specialist support, counselling and peer connection.
  • 95% of surveyed carers felt better able to cope in their caring role.

Geography

UK-Wide

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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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
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
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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