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Making an Impact for Every Man: Our Impact in 2025/26

Prostate Cancer UK's 2025/26 impact report sets out a year of progress towards a faster, fairer, better diagnosis pathway and a national screening programme, including the charity's campaigning for the UK's first Men's Health Strategy. It covers research into earlier and more accurate diagnosis and kinder treatments, support for men living with prostate cancer (including a 12-week exercise programme in which 79% of participants reported benefits to their mood, 64% to their emotional wellbeing and 57% an overall improvement in quality of life), and awareness work focused on men from the age of 45 and on Black men, who face double the risk.

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About

Prostate Cancer UK is the UK's leading prostate cancer charity, funding research, campaigning for better diagnosis and treatment, and providing support and information to men and their families.

Key Metrics

79% of exercise-programme participants reported a benefit to their mood
64% of exercise-programme participants reported a benefit to their emotional wellbeing
57% of exercise-programme participants reported improved quality of life

Key Outcomes

  • Secured commitment to the UK's first Men's Health Strategy and progress towards a prostate cancer screening programme
  • Research advances in faster, fairer diagnosis reaching men more quickly
  • Awareness work targeted at men over 45 and Black men at higher risk

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...
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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...
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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
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
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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