2025 Enhanced

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024-25

The Stroke Association is the only UK-wide charity providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. In 2024/25 the charity reached over 66,000 people through its support services, with nearly 38,000 receiving personalised support from local Stroke Support Coordinators, and the Helpline handling around 15,000 enquiries. Total income rose to a record £44.4 million, supported by the charity's best-ever fundraising year of £31.4 million, and £2.4 million was invested in new stroke research awards.

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£2.4 million invested in 12 new stroke research awards at 9 UK institutions

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 66,000 people reached through support services in 2024/25
Key Metric 2 Nearly 38,000 people received personalised support from local Stroke Support Coordinators
Key Metric 3 £31.4 million raised in fundraised income — the charity's best-ever fundraising year

Key Outcomes

  • 434 active Stroke Support Groups helping around 13,000 stroke survivors and families
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Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022