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Impact Report 2026

Door 84 is a York-based youth and community centre, originally established over 90 years ago, providing youth clubs, an inclusive Sparks programme for adults with support needs, a community café and food bank, and commissioned employability courses, from a charity-owned building in the Groves area of York. Source: Door 84 Impact Report 2026 PDF, retrieved Sept 2026.

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Youth Club sessions four times a week for ages 8-17 (cooking, physical activities, crafts, free play); the Holiday, Activities and Food (HAF) programme; twice-weekly Sparks sessions for adults with support needs (creative and social activities, an inclusive disco); a weekly Community Café with a Food Bank and Community Pantry via a FareShare partnership; commissioned tailored cooking courses (in partnership with Better Connect) supporting people facing barriers to employment, training and education; and room hire in their York building

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 7,746 attendances across projects in 2025/26, a 40% year-on-year increase, delivered across 445 sessions (25% increase YOY)
Key Metric 2 20,000 meal equivalents distributed via FareShare; 715kg of food saved from landfill and redistributed every month
Key Metric 3 595 volunteer hours contributed across Door 84 in the last 12 months, an equivalent value of £58k in saved salaries

Key Outcomes

  • 59% of attendees report Door 84 has helped their mental wellbeing, an increase of 13% on the previous year
  • 70% of youth attendees feel more confident and 96% feel Door 84 is a safe space
  • 91% of Sparks attendees have made friends and 100% felt treated with respect

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.