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Impact Report 2025-26

Safety Net is a Carlisle-based charity supporting people across Cumbria affected by rape, exploitation, domestic abuse and sexual abuse. This report covers 2025-26 and states that three more years of funding were secured for Your Space. The PDF text layout is complex; percentages above were cross-checked where they appeared more than once. Contact email is the general office address; no named fundraiser was found. Source: Safety Net Impact Report 2025-26 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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Trauma-informed advice, counselling and therapy for adults, children and young people affected by rape, exploitation, domestic abuse and sexual abuse; a Tier 1 helpline; the Your Space schools prevention and early intervention programme; McKenzie Friends legal support (59 hours for 25 clients); a Refugee/Asylum-Seeking Project (57 clients); and peer groups and a Recovery Community

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported 1,009 people in Cumbria during 2025-26, with 524 new referrals
Key Metric 2 Recorded 17,772 activities across the service, equal to 8,762 hours of support; the Tier 1 helpline alone recorded 7,571 activities (2,463.7 hours)
Key Metric 3 738 children and young people attended peer group sessions during the year

Key Outcomes

  • 84% of adult clients experienced a reduction in trauma symptoms
  • 76% of adult service users felt their personal safety had improved
  • 61% of adult service users felt their relationships with friends and family had improved

Geography

North West

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
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.