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Trustees' Annual Report & Accounts 2025/26

IMPACT Foundation UK funds an international partnership of local organisations across 14 countries in Africa and Asia working to prevent and treat needless disability through surgery, assistive devices, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, and nutrition, alongside a UK-based nutrition project in Sussex. This is the statutory Trustees' Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026, included at Xavier's discretion (same basis as Sue Ryder) given its substantial narrative impact content ahead of the statutory financial statements. Source: IMPACT Foundation Annual Report & Accounts 2025/26 PDF, retrieved Sept 2026.

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Accessible surgery via mobile hospitals (Impact India's Lifeline Express hospital train, Bangladesh's Jibon Tari floating hospital) and static clinics; early identification, treatment and rehabilitation including assistive devices; safe water and sanitation projects; malnutrition prevention (home/school gardens, supplements); safer motherhood and child survival (antenatal/postnatal care, new birthing centres); health education and training for local health workers, teachers and community leaders; a UK-based nutrition project (Tasty Team) in Sussex

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,255,974 people benefited across 14 countries in 2025/26, 27% more than the previous year (FY24/25: 985,246); 39,727 assistive devices (hearing aids, orthotics, prostheses, spectacles) given
Key Metric 2 16,303 operations to restore sight, hearing or mobility or treat conditions such as cleft lip, fistula and hydrocephalus; 90,858 mothers and babies received pre and post-natal care
Key Metric 3 Total income £2,207,061 (GBP); 91p in every £1 spent went directly to charitable activities; every £1 spent on fundraising generated £18.32 in voluntary income

Key Outcomes

  • 95.7% of cataract surgery patients treated by IMPACT Bangladesh had a moderate or good vision outcome one month after surgery, avoiding blindness
  • A new Birthing Centre built with IMPACT funding in Mahuwa Village, Nepal opened in May 2025 and now serves a local population of 34,800 people
  • The UK Tasty Team nutrition project has doubled its annual beneficiaries since 2023

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International

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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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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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