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Relationship Scotland Orkney Impact Report 2025-26

Relationship Scotland Orkney provides counselling, mediation and family support across Orkney. Its Impact Report 2025-26 records 398 cases attending 3,062 sessions, 453 new cases opened, 191 people attending 1,425 one-to-one support sessions, and 24 children attending 230 play therapy sessions.

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About

Relationship Scotland Orkney is the island's counselling and family support charity, offering relationship counselling, mediation, child contact services, play therapy and one-to-one support for adults, young people and children across Orkney.

Key Metrics

Cases and sessions 398 cases attended 3,062 sessions in 2025-26, with 453 new cases opened as demand grew.
One-to-one support 191 people attended 1,425 one-to-one support sessions for adults, young people and children.
Play therapy 24 children attended 230 sessions of Play Therapy, with strong continuing demand.
Island reach 95% of clients live on the Orkney mainland and linked South Isles, with 4% on ferry-linked islands.

Key Outcomes

  • 398 cases supported through 3,062 counselling, mediation and support sessions.
  • 453 new cases opened to meet rising demand for relationship and family support in Orkney.

Geography

Scotland

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...
Key Metric 2
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
Impact Snapshot
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
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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Key Metric 1
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