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Annual Review 2025

Together for Mental Wellbeing's Annual Review 2025 covers its national mental health support services, including supported living accommodation, community support, advocacy and criminal justice work. Highlights include the launch of a new Lived Experience Network for service user leadership, a new Wellbeing Platform crisis support service at London Bridge station, and new supported living contracts in Lambeth, Suffolk and Hounslow. The report is narrative-led with limited quantitative headline statistics.

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Mental health supported living and accommodation services; community support; advocacy and criminal justice services; Lived Experience Network for service user leadership; Wellbeing Platform crisis support at London Bridge station

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 140 years operating; celebrated the 70th anniversary of its York Road supported living service in Sutton
Key Metric 2 New Kingsmead Cluster supported living service launched in Lambeth (3 properties, adults aged 18-65)
Key Metric 3 Two new significant contracts secured in Suffolk and Hounslow to deliver mental health supported living services

Key Outcomes

  • Lived Experience Network members reported improved confidence and a sense of community through peer collaboration
  • Residents at Elva Court reported improved confidence, independence and mental wellbeing through a supported gym programme
  • Norfolk walking group participants reported reduced isolation and improved wellbeing through peer-led outdoor activities

Geography

London

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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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