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Rebuild With Hope Foundation Annual Impact Report July 2023–July 2024

Rebuild With Hope Foundation is a Wigan-based charity established to mentor and support people with multiple barriers to employment — including ex-offenders and long-term unemployed individuals — through training, volunteering, work experience and wraparound support. The 2023-24 impact report covers a year in which 56 people completed the Rebuilding Your Success programme, 24 ex-offenders moved into employment, 6,180 families were supported through community sales, and 900 children received free school uniforms. The charity operates across 36 community centres, runs a Warm Space, delivers Fashion Reimagined sustainability workshops, and saved 786,567 items from landfill. 39 volunteers contributed 2,490 hours, with 7 progressing to paid positions.

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Rebuilding Your Success employment programme for ex-offenders and long-term unemployed (training, volunteering, work experience, CV building, interview preparation, qualifications); community sales at 36 community centres; free school uniform donations; Warm Space provision; Fashion Reimagined sustainability workshops; revive and repair sessions; digital inclusion training; corporate volunteering with Murphys, Maximus, Wigan Council and ATPI Custom geography from upload: Wigan, Greater Manchester, England

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 56 people completed the Rebuilding Your Success employment programme, with 24 ex-offenders progressing to employment (20 in other sectors, 4 with Rebuild With Hope) and 5 long-term unemployed progressing to work
Key Metric 2 6,180 families supported through community sales; 300 families and 900 children supported with free school uniform donations during the cost-of-living crisis
Key Metric 3 786,567 items saved from landfill; 4,642 items repurposed; 39 volunteers contributing 2,490 hours with 7 progressing to paid positions

Key Outcomes

  • 24 ex-offenders progressed to employment following the Rebuilding Your Success programme — including 4 into roles directly with Rebuild With Hope — with participant testimonials describing transformation from HMP Thorn Cross into stable employment with qualifications in PAT testing, bike maintenance and warehouse and retail skills
  • 1,142 people used the Warm Space provision and 51 referrals were received from community agencies, with £15,636 donated to other charities and community centres, demonstrating the charity's role as a hub for wider community redistribution during a period of acute cost-of-living pressure
  • Fashion Reimagined sustainability programme delivered 198 hours of revive and repair sessions and 8 upcycling workshops, saving 786,567 items from landfill and repurposing 4,642 items — integrating environmental responsibility directly into the charity's social inclusion and employment mission

Geography

North West

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
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Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved