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StepChange Impact Report 2025: How we helped people in 2025

StepChange's Impact Report 2025 sets out how the UK's largest debt advice charity helped people during 2025. The report records over 332,000 calls managed, more than 15,500 clients who became debt free, over 135,000 clients who reviewed their existing solutions, around 42,000 clients who set up a new debt solution and 2.4 million individual engagements across the charity's services, alongside its policy and partnerships work.

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About

StepChange Debt Charity is the UK's leading debt advice charity, offering free, impartial debt advice and solutions online and by phone to people across the UK.

Key Metrics

332,000+ calls managed
15,500 clients who became debt free
2.4 million individual engagements

Key Outcomes

  • 135,000+ clients reviewed their existing debt solutions
  • 42,000 clients set up a new debt solution
  • Free, impartial advice available online and by phone

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved