Health & Wellbeing 2025
Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury Impact Report 2025

Shaftesbury is a major UK disability care charity supporting disabled people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 2024–25 it supported 4,024 people with 1,320,986 hours of direct care and support, with 100% of CQC-inspected services rated Good or higher. The charity delivers residential care, community support, therapy, employment pathways and specialist equipment provision for disabled people.

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Care and support services for disabled people, residential support, therapy and treatment, employment support, specialist equipment Custom geography from upload: England, Wales & Northern Ireland

📊Key Metrics

4,024 people supported Key Metric 1
1,320,986 direct support hours Key Metric 2
100% CQC inspected services rated Good+ Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Disabled people supported across regions
  • Quality assured services
  • CQC ratings excellent

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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