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Impact Report 2024-2025

Only A Pavement Away's 2024-25 Impact Report shows the hospitality-industry charity has placed 661 people facing homelessness or leaving prison into jobs since 2018, adding an estimated £25.1m to the UK economy.

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About

Job matching with over 100 hospitality employer partners; Passport 2 Employment immersive skills training week; one-to-one sessions, recruitment fairs and taster sessions; prison workshops for people close to release; post-employment check-in calls and financial grants

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 661 members placed into employment to date, adding an estimated £25.1m to the UK economy
Key Metric 2 194 members placed into employment in 2024, of whom 70% remain in employment
Key Metric 3 Total income £1.05m (year ended 30 April 2025)

Key Outcomes

  • 83% of members would recommend the charity to others seeking employment
  • 50 prison workshops held in 2024, reaching 474 attendees
  • £58,000 of financial grants awarded to date to help members start and sustain employment

Geography

London

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