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The impact of your giving 2025

Two Ridings Community Foundation is the community foundation for North and East Yorkshire and Hull, connecting donors with local groups through grants, endowment and community leadership. Its 2025 report, The impact of your giving, shows £2.4 million distributed through 509 grants.

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About

Two Ridings Community Foundation runs place-based funds for Hull, Scarborough, Selby, York and Harrogate, putting donors' money to work in local communities. Its Know Your Neighbourhood Fund is investing £1 million in Hull over three years, and the HEY Confident Futures Leadership Network has supported more than 560 community leaders. Family and corporate funds, such as the Bettys & Taylors Family Fund, provide multi-year grants, and the Foundation steps in with emergency support, including flood relief, when communities need it most.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Two Ridings Community Foundation distributed £2.4 million through 509 grants, with an average grant of £4,800.
Key Metric 2 68% of applicants were successful.
Key Metric 3 Grants awarded totalled £2,424,482, with total funds of £11,894,195 and endowment donations of £561,197 (GBP).

Key Outcomes

  • A £10,000 grant to Share Skipton funded a Volunteer Coordinator, building a team of 59 volunteers and launching a Repair Cafe.
  • A £9,000 unrestricted grant helped Thirsk Youth Club achieve regulatory compliance and move to new premises, with local reports of drops in anti-social behaviour.
  • Charlie, aged 22, secured paid employment with tailored support through Autism Plus's Chocolate Academy vocational programme, funded by three-year grants.

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.