Health & Wellbeing Education & Young People 2025
Thomas Pocklington Trust

Key Life Chances Report 2024/25

Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) is a national charity achieving equality and inclusion for blind and partially sighted (BPS) people, with over half its staff and more than 200 volunteers having lived experience of sight loss. In 2024/25 — the first year of its Key Life Chances strategy — TPT delivered employment support to 350+ people through Works For Me, with 58 securing jobs, and ran 31 Get Set Progress internships, 85% of which led to full-time employment. 333 students received education support and a new joint service with Guide Dogs launched in April 2025. TPT's 25 Sight Loss Councils expanded into Scotland, its #CutItBack campaign reached 100,000+ people, and it co-developed an NHS accessible bowel cancer screening tool. A YouGov-backed APPG report with 21 government recommendations was published jointly with RNIB, and TPT hosted the sector's first Lived Experience Leadership conference.

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📋About

Works For Me employment support; Get Set Progress internship programme (with RNIB funding); Sight Loss Councils (25 active, across England and Scotland); Young Voices and Student Voices volunteer programmes; education information, advice and guidance (new partnership with Guide Dogs from April 2025); VI awareness training for healthcare professionals; grant-making to partner organisations; #CutItBack and #MakeHealthAccessible campaigns; transport accessibility work; LEX Lived Experience Leadership conference

📊Key Metrics

350+ people received personalised employment support through Works For Me; 58 secured employment; 31 Get Set Progress internships delivered with 85% transitioning to full-time work Key Metric 1
333 students supported through education services; 25 active Sight Loss Councils across the UK including new expansion into Scotland Key Metric 2
Total income £4.26m (net property income £3.93m, grants and donations £329k); total expenditure £5.33m including £745k grants to other organisations and £4.47m internal charitable expenditure Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Co-authored report with RNIB and APPG on Eye Health containing 21 recommendations for government, based on YouGov poll of 2,000 employers; residential employment and assistive technology course oversubscribed fourfold
  • #CutItBack campaign on overgrown street vegetation reached over 100,000 people prompting local authority action; secured Your Station Your Community grant improving accessibility at six rail stations; UK's first e-learning course on inclusive transport design launched with CIHT
  • 325+ pieces of print and 25 broadcast media coverage generated; NHS bowel cancer screening tool co-developed to make testing accessible to people with sight loss; VI awareness training delivered to 250+ medical students at Newcastle University

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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