The Passage Impact Report 2024-25

The Passage is a Westminster-based homelessness charity providing frontline services and long-term support to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. In 2024-25, the charity supported 3,007 people, served over 46,000 meals, helped 503 into accommodation and prevented homelessness for 2,261 people. Its innovative No Night Out scheme and Lived Experience Assembly have been recognised nationally as models of best practice.

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📋About

Resource Centre providing meals, showers, clothing and advice; No Night Out emergency hotel accommodation; Engagement and Outreach; Resettlement; Housing Needs; Education and Employment; Modern Slavery support; accommodation including Passage House, Bentley House, Montfort House and Penn House; Lived Experience Assembly

📊Key Metrics

3,007 people experiencing or at risk of homelessness supported across the organisation in 2024-25 Key Metric 1
2,261 people prevented from homelessness and helped to find and keep a home Key Metric 2
46,266 meals served to residents and Resource Centre visitors; 503 people helped into accommodation Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 188 individuals moved into safe and sustainable housing through the No Night Out service, with over 90% sustaining their tenancies
  • 906 people helped to gain financial independence, security and stability through welfare, employment and housing support
  • Lived Experience Assembly established, giving people with lived experience of homelessness a formal voice in The Passage's governance and three-year strategy

📍Geography

London

2025

A Year in Review: Impact Report 2024–2025

23,371 visits to the centre from April 2024 to March 2025
Key Metric 1
45 people helped to secure their own permanent home
Key Metric 2
40 people supported into employment; 44 gained nationally recognised qualifications
Key Metric 3
150 people actively supported to maintain their accommodation; average income maximised by £601.03 per month per person
2025

Impact Report 2025

Total income £10,019,755 and total expenditure £9,525,116 (year ended 31 March 2025, charity no. 1086320); 5,880 individuals supported to belong, contribute and thrive across 24 YMCA locations in the Black Country; 570 individuals called YMCA home
Key Metric 1
131,185 bed nights provided to young people who would otherwise be homeless; 200,500 hours of funded early years education provided; 1,222 young people moved from receiving benefits into work or training; 523 children developing in nurseries across the Black Country
Key Metric 2
114 teenagers offered a safe home in YMCA Host families' spare rooms; 322 young people engaged with YMCA mentors to overcome barriers to employment; 737 people prioritising health and wellbeing at YGym West Bromwich; 261 hot meals provided to vulnerable people in Walsall
Key Metric 3
60% of Sandwell Youth Hub young people secured work placements or employment through partner organisations; 94% of early years places funded through government support; 12 Early Years apprentices from 2024 cohort secured permanent employment; 9 families supported to flee domestic abuse since April 2025 merger with Living Springs
2024

Impact Report 2023/24

4,508 emergency (VRF) grants awarded totalling £1,780,676, helping 7,512 people to secure or keep a home in 2023/24
Key Metric 1
937 frontline workers benefited from training programmes across the four nations of the UK; 350 attendees at the Annual National Frontline Network Conference with 94% rating it good or excellent
Key Metric 2
71 partner-facilitated events attended by 1,331 frontline workers across the UK to share knowledge and best practice
Key Metric 3
728 grants for preventing eviction; 3,780 grants for moving into new accommodation; 75% of payments made within 5 days of application