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NWN Impact Report 2026

Neighbourhood Watch Network is the charity supporting local Neighbourhood Watch groups across England and Wales. This report covers 2025-26 and the launch of its new 2026-30 strategy (Watch, Connect, Act). Contact email is the general enquiries address; no named fundraiser was found. Source: NWN Impact Report 2026 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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Three strands: Watch (crime prevention information and shared local intelligence), Connect (initiatives that reduce loneliness and isolation) and Act (practical local improvement); Cyberhood Watch ambassadors; community grants for volunteers; Neighbourhood Watch Week; the Communi-Tea project; bystander intervention workshops; and partnership webinars with Stop Loan Sharks and Cyber Protect Custom geography from upload: England & Wales

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supports a movement of 90,000 coordinators, 60,000 active volunteers and 2.3 million supporter households across England and Wales
Key Metric 2 The 2025 National Crime and Community Survey received 38,599 responses on crime, fear of crime and community cohesion
Key Metric 3 London bystander intervention programme delivered 18 in-person workshops in Hackney, Lambeth and Croydon plus 20 online sessions, connecting with over 100,000 Londoners through wider outreach

Key Outcomes

  • Understanding of the "5Ds" of bystander intervention rose from 21% before training to 93% afterwards
  • Members are 15% more likely than non-members to speak to neighbours on most days
  • Members are 12% more likely to litter-pick and 7% more likely to run errands for neighbours

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Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.