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Making Space

Impact Report 2025/26: The Journey of Change

Making Space is a national charity delivering place-based mental health, dementia, learning disability and social care support across England, combining regulated care, supported living and community services with charitable fundraising that extends beyond commissioned provision. Source: Making Space Impact Report 2025/26 PDF, retrieved Sept 2026.

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Community and preventative services (social prescribing, peer groups, wellbeing activity); mental health and therapeutic services (recovery support, counselling, crisis prevention); day opportunities and dementia-friendly community groups; supported living and supported housing; extra care and residential care; carer support services (respite, family support, young carer support); specialist practical support (hardship help, falls-prevention equipment, Healthy Mind Packs)

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 14,700 people supported in 2025/26, including 3,700 carers and 1,000+ volunteer hours
Key Metric 2 700 people supported through supported living services; 300 people supported across regulated (residential/extra care) services
Key Metric 3 £100,600 in grant funding secured across 36 grants; £2.40 generated for every £1 invested in fundraising

Key Outcomes

  • The Merseyside Neurodiversity Project toolkit (60+ resources for people in contact with the criminal justice system) won first place at the 2025 N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum
  • Rotherham Dementia Carers 'Time For You Days' generated an estimated £4.12-£5.77 of equivalent respite value for every £1 raised, delivering 520 hours of respite across 130 attendances
  • The September 2025 merger with Beacon Counselling protected services for 1,108 children and young people, delivering 6,359 counselling and wellbeing sessions across 24 Stockport and Greater Manchester schools

Geography

UK-Wide

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