Impact Report 2026

The Rory Peck Trust is an international NGO supporting freelance journalists and their families worldwide through crisis grants, trauma therapy, hostile environment training and safety resources. Their 2026 impact report highlights support for 400+ journalists across crisis assistance, therapy, training and safety clinics globally.

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📋About

Crisis Fund, Therapy Fund, Training Fund, Safety Clinics, Risk & Safety Helpdesk, Rory Peck Awards

📊Key Metrics

400+ freelance journalists supported across all programmes Key Metric 1
112 journalists received assistance grants from Crisis Fund or Therapy Fund Key Metric 2
223 journalists completed training workshops (hostile environment, first aid, digital security, psychological resilience) Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 81 journalists received specialist safety advice via Safety Clinics in Amman and Johannesburg and online Risk & Safety Helpdesk
  • Over 3,000 freelance journalists given assistance grants since Trust founded in 1995; over £2.3m in grants distributed to date
  • Training delivered across UK, West Africa, Ukraine and Lebanon; reaching journalists in some of the world's most dangerous reporting environments

📍Geography

International

2025

Impact Report 2024/25

£1.203 billion paid out in donations to charities worldwide in 2024-25 — up from £1.132bn in 2023-24; centenary year milestone
Key Metric 1
CAF Bank: 14,300+ charity customers; £1.45bn deposits managed; committed loans grew to £283m; named Best UK Charity Bank Account in Charity Excellence survey 2024
Key Metric 2
Venturesome Impact Fund launched with £10m philanthropic capital — 18 social investments funded in inaugural year; UK public gave record £15.4bn in 2024 but from 6 million fewer donors than 5 years ago (50:50 donor/non-donor split for first time)
Key Metric 3
Smiths Group Foundation awarded £1.5m+ to 19 organisations in 11 countries with CAF grantmaking support; Calvay Housing Association secured £2.77m CAF Bank Green Loan to upgrade 267 homes in Glasgow East End; Culture Secretary committed to draw up England's first place-based philanthropy strategy
2025

Annual 2025 Impact Report

24.8 million animals estimated to be impacted; 1.1 million petition signatories; 131,000+ volunteers worldwide
Key Metric 1
1,700+ media mentions; 79 million+ estimated media views; 7.7 million video views; investigations in UK, Scotland, US, Spain, Italy, India, Argentina, Germany, Brazil
Key Metric 2
England's Animal Welfare Strategy shaped to include cage bans, CO2 gas phase-out for pigs, faster-growing chicken breeding reform and fish slaughter laws; Italy's guidelines published to enforce law against male chick killing (34 million chicks spared per year)
Key Metric 3
UK trout farm investigation was a top-read article in The Guardian and sparked calls for fish slaughter laws; Scottish salmon investigation led RSPCA Assured to suspend one farm and investigate another; Denny's pledged to end pig crates after 600-day campaign
2024

Annual Report 2024

£20.3m awarded in total funding in 2024; 662 small charities supported through grants programmes; 297,000 people supported by charity partners
Key Metric 1
£6.75m to specialist charities in 8 key areas; £3.2m to organisations led by and for racially minoritised people; £3.2m to Deaf and Disabled people's organisations
Key Metric 2
428 Lloyds Banking Group colleagues shared skills with 110 charities; 420 charities supported with organisational development; £1.6m invested in 16 local collaborations with 70+ partners
Key Metric 3
Refugee Council advocacy extended refugee 'move on' period from 28 to 56 days; Carers UK research helped raise Carers Allowance earnings limit by £45/week (reducing overpayment risk for 60,000+ carers); Renters Reform Coalition secured Government commitment to end section 21 'no fault' evictions (9.3m+ households protected)