Sport & Physical Activity Health & Wellbeing 2026
Enable Leisure & Culture

Impact Report 2025/26

Enable is a not-for-profit delivering health, leisure and community services across London in partnership with local councils. Their 2025/26 report highlights impact across three themes — loneliness, connected communities and wellbeing — through programmes including social prescribing, active lifestyles, arts, volunteering and community events.

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📋About

Social Prescribing, Active Lifestyles, Short Breaks, Warm Hubs, Allotments, Film Academy, Walk Wandsworth, Biodiversity Volunteering, Community Events, Putney School of Art & Design, Bereavement Services, Active Wellbeing

📊Key Metrics

1,499 people supported through Social Prescribing Key Metric 1
45% of Enable activity participants felt less lonely or isolated Key Metric 2
500 volunteers delivered 2,000 hours for London Borough of Culture Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Average 32.5% improvement in client wellbeing via Social Prescribing; one client improved from 30% to 82%
  • 119 participants in Active Wellbeing Programme saw average 21% improvement in Warwick Edinburgh Wellbeing scores
  • 92% of Short Breaks parents rated their wellbeing as excellent/good; 39% average increase in connectedness for learning disability programme participants

📍Geography

London

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