Impact Report 2025

The Royal Anglian Regiment Charity supports serving soldiers, veterans, cadets, family members and supporters of the Royal Anglian Regiment — one of the British Army's largest infantry regiments. In 2025 the charity hosted 26 Big Breakfasts globally, attracting nearly 1,000 Royal Anglians, and held its annual Regimental Gathering and a battlefield study to Gallipoli with 30 members of the Family. 2,384 active users engaged on the CONNECT App, with 53,000+ social media followers and 650,000 website visits. Individual grants were awarded for home adaptations, mobility, debt, housing and mental health support. The Leafyard mental fitness app provides free access to all serving and veteran members. The charity also delivered the Silver Project recording 1,262 items of Regimental silver, completed conservation of the Gandamak Colour, and supported the IWM Duxford Regimental Memorial. A peer-led veteran welfare telephone network launches in 2026.

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Individual financial grants (crisis, illness, family emergencies, housing, mobility, home adaptations); Leafyard digital mental fitness app (free for all serving personnel and veterans); Royal Anglian CONNECT App; Big Breakfasts across UK and internationally; Regimental Gathering (annual open-air reunion); battlefield study (Gallipoli 2025); sporting events (boxing, cricket, skiing, cycling, golf, rugby, football); heritage and museum operations; Combat2Coffee peer support partnership; Hospital Liaison Volunteers Custom geography from upload: UK-wide & International

📊Key Metrics

2,384 active users on the Royal Anglian CONNECT App in 12 months; 53,000+ active followers across social media; 650,000 hits on the Regimental website; 350+ news articles posted on CONNECT Key Metric 1
26 National Big Breakfasts hosted across locations including Grimsby, Dubai and Sydney — nearly 1,000 Royal Anglians gathering to renew connections and support mental health and wellbeing Key Metric 2
Grants awarded across a wide range of needs including home adaptations, mobility aids, debt support, housing support, mental health and wellbeing, training and work tools, and travel assistance; 1,262 items of Regimental silver recorded through the Silver Project Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Battlefield study to Gallipoli in 2025 brought together 30 members of the Royal Anglian Family including serving soldiers from all three battalions and veterans — delivering professional military education, honouring the fallen and strengthening serving-veteran connections
  • Dedicated telephone welfare network for Royal Anglian veterans — peer-led, delivered by trained volunteers providing listening support and signposting — planned for launch in 2026 following first year of strategy implementation
  • Conservation of the Gandamak Colour (1800s, Badajoz battle honour) completed following mould damage; Regimental Museum relocated to temporary display at IWM Duxford during construction of new permanent home; annual Remembrance Day service at Duxford memorial attracted up to 400 attendees

📍Geography

East of England

2023 Enhanced

Impact Report 2022-23

8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 1
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 2
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
Key Metric 3
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
2025 Enhanced

World YMCA Annual Report 2025

CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 1
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 2
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
Key Metric 3
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
2025 Enhanced

Allsorts Youth Project Annual Report 2023–24

95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 1
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 2
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Key Metric 3
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities