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Impact Report 2026

The Jack Petchey Foundation invests in young people aged 11–25 across London and Essex through grants and partnership programmes focused on building confidence, skills and voice. Their 2026 impact report covers the academic year September 2024–August 2025, reaching a record 200,000 young people through the flagship Achievement Award Scheme, 18 partnership programmes and a wide range of grants totalling over £10.7m.

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Achievement Award Scheme, Achievement Award Events, Leader Awards, Educational Visits, Individual Grants for Volunteering, Achiever Network, Internship Programme, Speak Out Challenge, Step into Dance, Panathlon, WizeUp Financial Education, Count on Us Maths Challenge, First Give, Science Made Simple, Table Tennis, Residentials Custom geography from upload: London & Essex

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Almost 200,000 young people reached — highest ever total, up 13% year on year
Key Metric 2 12,485 Achievement Awards given; 250,000th award winner recognised in July 2025
Key Metric 3 £10.7m invested through grants and programmes; 1.5 million young people benefited since 1999

Key Outcomes

  • 94% of coordinators say scheme helps young people feel valued; 99% would recommend it to other schools and youth organisations
  • 155,328 young people reached through 18 partnership programmes (up 18%); 80% of participants increased confidence; 82% improved resilience
  • 27 interns completed year-long programme; 96% improved skills and knowledge; estimated 2,300 young people directly benefited from interns' work

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440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
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140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
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373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
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45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
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95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
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91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
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Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
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Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
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851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
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27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
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94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni