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Venture Trust Impact Report 2025/26: Every Step Matters

Venture Trust's Impact Report 2025/26 shows how its wilderness-based personal development, employability and outdoor therapy services engaged 779 people, with 86% improving their ability to deal with challenge, 88% their confidence and 83% showing improved mental wellbeing.

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About

Venture Trust is a Scottish charity using wilderness journeys, employability support and outdoor therapy to help adults, women and young people facing adversity change their lives.

Key Metrics

People engaged 779 people engaged with Venture Trust across its services in 2025/26.
Personal development 435 participants took part in the Personal Development programmes.
Employability 268 participants took part in the Employability programmes.
Outdoor therapy 100 clients took part in Outdoor Therapy, one-to-one counselling in nature for people in psychological distress.
Improved outcomes 88% of participants improved their confidence, 86% improved their ability to deal with challenge and 83% showed improved mental wellbeing.

Key Outcomes

  • Participants gained confidence and resilience through wilderness journeys and employability support.
  • 779 people engaged across Personal Development, Employability and Outdoor Therapy services.

Geography

Scotland

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