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Next Link Impact Report and Annual Review 2025/26

Next Link's Impact Report and Annual Review 2025/26 shares a year of domestic abuse support across Bristol and South Gloucestershire, spanning safe houses, community outreach and IDVA services, children's services, hospital IDSVAs, group work and rural community programmes.

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About

Next Link Domestic Abuse Services provides safe houses, community outreach, IDVA services, children's services and group work for survivors of domestic abuse across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Key Metrics

Survivors supported 2,747 survivors supported through community outreach and IDVA services during 2025/26.
Families housed 207 families housed through safe house services, which received 705 referrals.
Children supported 161 children supported by triage and 181 children accepted into the full children's service.
Group work attendance 273 survivors attended group sessions, and 37 women who had experienced honour-based violence and 19 victims of forced marriage were supported.

Key Outcomes

  • Survivors of domestic abuse across Bristol and South Gloucestershire found safety, recovered their wellbeing and rebuilt their lives, with one survivor saying: Since getting the help from Safe Link, I can feel again.

Geography

South West

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
Impact Snapshot
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
Impact Snapshot
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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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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