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Enfield Voluntary Action Impact Report 2025-26

Enfield Voluntary Action's Impact Report 2025-26 shows the borough's infrastructure charity raising more than £1.73m for community work in Enfield, a return of more than £10 for every £1 of its £170,000 funding from Enfield Council. The total combines £1.2m secured by local community organisations with EVA support and £533,000 raised directly by EVA. Over the past five years EVA has distributed £924,500, raised from 12 external funders, in 140 grants through nine grants programmes, despite major funders pausing programmes during the year.

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About

Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) is the umbrella charity for the voluntary and community sector in the London Borough of Enfield. It helps local groups secure funding, runs grants programmes, provides training and one-to-one advice on governance, fundraising and management, offers a community accountancy service and runs Volunteer Centre Enfield.

Key Metrics

£1.73m raised for community work in Enfield in 2025-26
£10 returned for every £1 of EVA's Enfield Council funding
£533,000 raised directly by EVA in 2025-26

Key Outcomes

  • £1.2m secured by local community organisations with EVA support
  • £924,500 distributed in 140 grants through nine grants programmes over the past five years
  • Grants funded by 12 separate external funders brought into the borough

Geography

London

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