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Impact Report 2025/26

The Pankhurst Trust's Impact Report 2025/26 covers April 2025 to March 2026 for Manchester Women's Aid, which supports women, children and families affected by domestic abuse across Manchester, and the Pankhurst Centre museum at the birthplace of the suffragette movement. During the year keyworkers provided more than 14,493 hours of support to survivors, six refuges provided safe accommodation for 141 women and children, and the Connect service received 985 referrals. The report also covers the children and young people's service, advice clinics, the weekly women's drop-in and community fundraising.

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About

The Pankhurst Trust (incorporating Manchester Women's Aid) is a Manchester charity supporting women, children and families affected by domestic abuse through refuges, community outreach, therapeutic services for children and advice clinics. It also cares for the Pankhurst Centre, the only museum dedicated to the Pankhurst family and the fight for women's rights.

Key Metrics

14,493+ hours of support provided by keyworkers to help survivors
141 women and children provided with safe accommodation
985 referrals received by the Connect service in 2025/26

Key Outcomes

  • 98% of survivors felt more confident about asking for help when they need it after refuge support
  • 91% of survivors felt better able to recognise abusive behaviour after Connect support
  • 94% of children knew more about where to get help if they need it after children and young people's service support

Geography

North West

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
Impact Snapshot
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
Impact Snapshot
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