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Impact Report 2024–25

SafeLives is a UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse for everyone, for good. Their 2024/25 impact report covers their 21st year and the launch of a new three-year strategy. Key highlights include expansion of the Drive Project (1,100 referrals this year; 7,000+ to date), the Victims and Prisoners Act becoming law, new survivor leadership panels, and specialist perpetrator programmes co-designed with by-and-for organisations.

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About

Drive Project (high-risk perpetrator intervention); Restart (earlier intervention pilot); MARAC development and national data platform; Authentic Voice survivor panels; Whole Picture Framework; workforce development and training (Domestic Abuse Matters; Leading Lights accreditation); Safe Young Lives / CADA programme; IDVA/ISVA specialist training; armed forces programme; Echo survivor leadership programme Custom geography from upload: UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,100 service users referred to the Drive Project in 2024/25; over 7,000 total since launch
Key Metric 2 New 2025–2028 strategy launched, co-created with survivors and professionals
Key Metric 3 Victims and Prisoners Act became law; SafeLives secured renewed Home Office investment to expand Drive Project across England and Wales

Key Outcomes

  • Independent evaluations of Drive Project show significant reductions in abusive behaviours, reduced risk to victim-survivors, and reduced repeat perpetrator cases at MARAC
  • Three co-designed specialist domestic abuse responses launched for Black African/Caribbean, South Asian and LGBT+ communities as part of Drive Partnership National Systems Change programme
  • Secured two-year licence renewal to deliver Domestic Abuse Matters culture change programme across policing; DfE and NHS England regularly use SafeLives data

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
33,600+ people directly supported; 52,000+ indirectly supported (2025)
Key Metric 2
£19.6M raised in fundraising income, up £3.4M on 2024
Key Metric 3
352 socially isolated people supported by community outreach (up 11%)
97% of caseworking enquiries received tailored intervention; 95% beneficiary satisfaction