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Impact Report 2024-2025

Fife Young Carers supports young people up to 25 across Fife with one-to-one support, respite, education and family wellbeing services. In 2024/25 the charity saw a 34% increase in referrals and now supports 1,542 young carers, having introduced a new Positive Destinations employability worker to help carers transition from school into work or further education.

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One-to-one and group support; respite day trips and residentials; Young Carers ID cards enabling free bus travel; Family Wellbeing Service for parents/carers; Education Team support in primary and secondary schools; new Positive Destinations employability service

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,542 young carers in service in 2024/25, following a 34% increase in referrals
Key Metric 2 417 young carers attended fortnightly evening peer group sessions across Fife localities
Key Metric 3 79 young carers supported to attend residential events, totalling 20 nights of residential respite

Key Outcomes

  • 92% of young carers reported feeling better able to cope as a result of Fife Young Carers support
  • 88% felt more confident, and 76% felt more positive about their future life opportunities
  • 54% of Fife's young carers lived in the most deprived areas of Fife in 2025, reflecting the compounding impact of poverty on caring roles

Geography

Scotland

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
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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
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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