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The Cellar Trust Impact Report 2024–25

The Cellar Trust is a Bradford-based mental health charity delivering peer support, crisis intervention, employment support and therapy across Bradford District. In 2024/25 it supported 12,360 people across 37,623 sessions — a 9% increase — and won the Charity Times Cross Sector Collaboration Award for its MAST hospital peer support service, which kept 90% of people out of re-admission. Safe Spaces crisis hubs saw a 93% increase in people supported, with referrals rising 36% from Yorkshire Ambulance Service. The charity opened Farfield, a new integrated health and wellbeing centre in Shipley, in July 2025, made possible through the Shipley Towns Fund.

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HOPE intensive peer support for people with complex trauma (387 people, 1,245 sessions); Modality Peer Support Service in GP settings (165 people, 99% improved wellbeing); MAST multi-agency support in hospitals (3,232 people, 5,866 hospital sessions + 2,132 community); Pathways to Employment for SMI (317 people, 49% increase in referrals); Talking Therapies Employment (753 people, 267 discharged into work); Trust Therapies counselling and psychotherapy (895 people, 4,775 sessions); Reach peer support in CMHT settings (324 people); CORE community-based SMI support (150 people); Enablement and Recovery residential (12 residents, 1,798 sessions); Safe Spaces urgent mental health crisis hubs; Craven Connect and Keighley Pathways Custom geography from upload: Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, West Yorkshire, UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 12,360 people supported — a 4% increase; 37,623 sessions of support delivered — a 9% increase; 730+ sessions delivered per week across sites, hospitals, GP surgeries and communities
Key Metric 2 96% of people would recommend The Cellar Trust to friends and family; £6,852,100 total income — 90% increase (includes £2.6 million Shipley Towns Fund capital for Farfield); 101 employees and 20 associates
Key Metric 3 MAST won 'Charity Collaboration of the Year' at the Charity Times Awards; 4,995 people supported through Safe Spaces crisis service — a 93% increase; Safe Spaces saw 36% increase in referrals from Yorkshire Ambulance Service reducing A&E admissions

Key Outcomes

  • HOPE: 88% showed measurable wellbeing improvement; 100% with SMI reported improved emotional and self-management; 97% with trauma histories experienced increased emotional safety
  • Modality Peer Support Service: 99% improved in wellbeing with 52% average increase in WEMWBS scores; 5% DNA rate (low), reflecting strength of peer-delivered relational model
  • Pathways to Employment: 47% increase in people achieving positive employment outcomes; youth referrals increased 118%; MAST: 90% not re-admitted to hospital; 87% showed improved wellbeing (34% average WEMWBS increase)

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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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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
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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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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