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Impact Report 2024

The Nelson Trust is a centre of excellence supporting women and families affected by addiction and multiple disadvantage across England and Wales. In 2024, over 4,600 women accessed Women's Community Services with 34,083 face-to-face and 5,845 group interventions; residential services achieved 90.2% bed occupancy; 101 women received specialist recovery support in Gloucestershire; 275 staff were employed; and volunteers gave 2,689 hours. Two new Women's Centres opened in Wales. Fundraising events raised £110,000 from 750+ supporters.

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Women's Centres (Gloucester, Bristol, Somerset, Newport, Carmarthen); ONE Wales Partnership (Wales-wide diversion from justice); residential recovery houses and resettlement houses; Hub Academy (60 daily visitors, 18 weekly groups); Sober Parrot and Clean Plate social enterprises; Gloucestershire Drug and Alcohol Service (women's, families and aftercare); WRNA assessment; music therapy; peer mentoring; Training Centre of Excellence Custom geography from upload: Gloucestershire / Wales / Somerset / England

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 4,600+ women accessed Women's Community Services; 34,083 face-to-face and 5,845 group interventions delivered
Key Metric 2 Residential services achieved 90.2% bed occupancy; 427 women assessed with new Women's Risk and Needs Assessment (WRNA) tool
Key Metric 3 1,100+ women and 500+ young people supported through ONE Wales Partnership; 55 families and 115 children supported by Family Focus Team in Gloucestershire

Key Outcomes

  • 41 clients completed Peer Mentoring course (up from 25 in 2023); 70 external training courses delivered reaching 1,000+ professionals including police, NHS and local authorities; 27 internal courses to 193 staff and volunteers
  • Gold award at Careers Matter Lived Experience Charter; Highly Commended at Wales Safer Community Awards; Newport Women's Centre visited by HRH Prince William; Somerset Women's Centre secured continuation lottery funding
  • Dame Julie Lydon appointed Chair of Trustees; 275 staff at year end; volunteers gave 2,689 hours across Hub Academy, events and community garden; £110,000 raised through events from 750+ supporters; Severe Weather Emergency Protocol implemented at Gloucester Women's Centre

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Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
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Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
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Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
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Key Metric 1
33,600+ people directly supported; 52,000+ indirectly supported (2025)
Key Metric 2
£19.6M raised in fundraising income, up £3.4M on 2024
Key Metric 3
352 socially isolated people supported by community outreach (up 11%)
97% of caseworking enquiries received tailored intervention; 95% beneficiary satisfaction