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Our Impact – Annual Client Survey 2025

Reading Mencap supports adults with learning disabilities and their family carers across Reading. Its 2025 annual survey found 100% of service users reported improved lives, with 471 people supported overall. Family Advisers nearly doubled their reach to 317 clients across 2,832 contacts, and a new energy advice project reached 211 clients. The 4ME Activities Day Service received 100% positive ratings from both users and carers.

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4ME Activities Day Service; Family Support Service; Carers Partnership; Energy Advice Project; Gateway Club and social clubs; information and advice casework

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 471 people with learning disabilities and carers supported in 2025
Key Metric 2 317 clients supported by Family Advisers through 2,832 contacts
Key Metric 3 100% of surveyed adults with a learning disability say their life is better thanks to support

Key Outcomes

  • 100% of surveyed adults with a learning disability report their life is better as a result of Reading Mencap's support
  • 96% of adults with learning disabilities love or like the clubs; 93% of family carers rated them excellent or good
  • 86% of family carers felt less alone and 78% felt better able to cope with caring responsibilities after receiving support

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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...
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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...
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
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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
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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