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Maggie's Annual Report and Financial Statements 2025

Maggie's Annual Report 2025 sets out a record year of free cancer support. Over 93,000 people visited a Maggie's centre for the first time in the UK, and the charity is now supporting one in seven new cancer diagnoses in England, Scotland and Wales. Its benefits advisors helped 20,000 people with cancer, and their carers, claim £59.7m in financial support, and attendance at its prostate cancer support groups grew by almost 50%. Visitor satisfaction remained very high, with 99% of visitors satisfied with their experience. Annual income reached £33.9m including £5m for capital.

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Maggie's provides free practical, emotional and psychological support for people with cancer and their families and friends, in centres built in the grounds of NHS cancer hospitals across the UK and online.

Key Metrics

93,000 people visited a Maggie's for the first time in the UK
£59.7m in financial support claimed for 20,000 people with cancer and their carers
99% of visitors satisfied with their experience at Maggie's

Key Outcomes

  • Maggie's saves the NHS over £10.4 million a year through delivering psychological support, exercise and other services
  • For every £1 spent on benefits advice, over £41 was claimed for centre visitors
  • Attendance at prostate cancer support groups grew by almost 50%

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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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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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
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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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