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Growing Resilience in Teens (GRIT) Impact Report 2025

Growing Resilience in Teens (GRIT) is a Hertfordshire charity founded in 2018, supporting young people aged 11–24 through a unique combination of non-contact boxing and health and wellbeing coaching, using its evidence-informed Four Corners Method. In 2024/25 it supported 585 young people, with 85% improving emotional regulation and 68% achieving a clinically meaningful improvement on the validated DERS-16 scale (effect size 0.93). The charity won the General Practice Awards 2024 for Clinical Improvement in Mental Health and the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire's Sport for Good Award 2025. It operates in partnership with NHS Primary Care Networks and has supported approximately 1,500 young people since inception, with average service capacity growth of 83% over the past three years.

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📋About

12-week GRIT Programme combining non-contact boxing with health and wellbeing coaching (50 young people; 89% completion rate); 1:1 coaching (463 participants; 80% completion rate); Continuation Programme weekly drop-in (65 young people); small group programmes: The Rumble and GRIT Art Group (72 participants); Peer Mentoring Programme at Fearnhill and Highfield schools (20 mentors training 27 mentees); holiday workshops; Four Corners Method framework based on Social and Emotional Learning, Window of Tolerance and Self-Determination Theory; GP and school referral pathways (PCN partnerships with Hitchin & Whitwell and Icknield PCNs) Custom geography from upload: Hitchin, Letchworth and surrounding areas, Hertfordshire, UK

📊Key Metrics

585 young people supported across 1:1 coaching and group programmes; 513 new referrals received; 170 young people attended holiday workshops Key Metric 1
85% of young people improved their ability to manage emotions (DERS-16 validated scale); 68% achieved a clinically meaningful improvement (≥10% reduction); effect size Cohen's d = 0.93 (large effect) Key Metric 2
£197,376 total income; General Practice Awards 2024: Clinical Improvement in Mental Health winner; High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Sport for Good Award 2025; service capacity growth average 83% over three years Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 72% of young people disclosing self-harm reported a reduction in incidents; 72% of those with poor school attendance improved (average 6 additional school days over 5 months); 79% of those with body image concerns reported measurable improvement
  • Proportion in severe emotional dysregulation range fell from 16% to 5%; those in minor range increased from 37% to 69% — demonstrating movement from distress to stability; 51% of young people with low confidence in school or work reported measurable improvement
  • 20 students and 16 teachers from two Letchworth schools trained in Four Corners Method; Peer Mentoring Programme Highly Commended at Sported Awards; Dr Tara Belcher, Clinical Director Hitchin & Whitwell PCN: 'GRIT is an innovative and excellent service'

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2026 Enhanced

Impact — Winter 2026

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 charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks
Key Metric 1
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 fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal
Key Metric 2
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 Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms
Key Metric 3
£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
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 1
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 2
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
Key Metric 3
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence