Impact Report 2022/23

TASC, The Ambulance Staff Charity provides independent, confidential wellbeing support to the UK's ambulance family — including paramedics, control room staff, managers, retirees and student paramedics. Their 2022/23 impact report covers 882 people helped (double pre-Covid), 7,700 contacts, 2,800 mental health sessions, a newly launched Crisis Phoneline and a stark funding warning — external mental health grant income fell 87% while demand grew 30%.

Report snapshot
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📋About

Ambulance Staff Crisis Phoneline (531 calls in year of launch); counselling and 11 types of specialist mental health support; trauma therapy; bereavement support (160 hours); residential physical rehabilitation; financial guidance and income maximisation (512 sessions, £24,000 in grants); self-care interventions; suicidal thoughts programme (254 sessions); National Ambulance Memorial Service Custom geography from upload: UK

📊Key Metrics

882 people helped in 2022/23 — double pre-Covid figures; 7,700 contacts from people seeking support Key Metric 1
2,800 mental health sessions delivered; 512 financial guidance sessions; 3,786 self-care interventions accessed Key Metric 2
Demand growing 30% every year; mental health grant income fallen 87% in one year despite rising need Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 85% of people who used mental health services saw improvement in their wellbeing; 63% reduction in trauma symptoms; 44% reduction in anxiety and depression
  • People accessing financial services were £510 a month better off on average; 98% of service users would recommend TASC
  • 152% increase in the number of people contacting TASC compared to the previous year — driven by post-pandemic surge in ambulance staff mental health need and burnout

📍Geography

UK-Wide

2026 Enhanced

Impact — Winter 2026

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 charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks
Key Metric 1
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 fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal
Key Metric 2
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 Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms
Key Metric 3
£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
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 1
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 2
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
Key Metric 3
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence