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Reach Annual Report 2024-2025

Reach's Annual Report 2024-2025 covers the charity's work supporting children and young people with upper limb difference and their families. In the year it created 1786 opportunities for Reach families, children and young people to connect in person (7% more than 2023), approximately 57% of Reach families attended events, and the Annual Family Weekend drew a total attendance of 374, a 28% increase on 2023.

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About

Reach is the UK charity supporting children and young people with upper limb difference and their families, through local branches, a mentoring network, the Reach Activity Week (RAW) and the Annual Family Weekend (AFW). Its Annual Report 2024-2025 records 1786 in-person opportunities for families, children and young people to connect, approximately 57% of Reach families attending branch events, RAW and the AFW, total AFW attendance of 374 (28% up on 2023), and feedback from 17 RAW families showing 100% reported an increase in confidence and 94.1% tried something new. Supporters raised £100282, representing 28% of expenditure for 2024-25 and nearly half of total income. Reach is registered charity 1134544 (England and Wales) and SC049805 (Scotland).

Key Metrics

1,786 opportunities created for Reach families, children and young people to connect in person
374 total attendance at the Annual Family Weekend 2024, a 28% increase on 2023
£100,282 raised by the Reach community, 28% of expenditure for 2024-25

Key Outcomes

  • 100% of the 17 RAW 2024 families reported an increase in confidence and 94.1% of young people tried something new
  • Approximately 57% of Reach families attended Reach Branch Events, RAW and the Annual Family Weekend
  • 1786 in-person connection opportunities created, 7% more than 2023

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
Impact Snapshot
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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
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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