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West Sussex Mind Impact Report 2026

West Sussex Mind's Impact Report 2026 shares statistics, stories and videos from 2025-26, a year of significant development for the local mental health charity and life-changing impact in the communities it serves.

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About

West Sussex Mind is an independent local mental health charity providing empowering and inclusive support across West Sussex, giving people tools and strategies to understand and manage their mental health for the long term.

Key Metrics

People supported 8,199 people supported across West Sussex in 2025-26.
Interventions delivered 29,834 individual and group interventions delivered, where people get one-to-one support or take part in group activities.
Training reach 4,966 people reached through training, awareness and anti-stigma work in 2025-26.
Crisis support 2,713 face-to-face interventions for people experiencing mental health crisis through Staying Well Worthing, an increase of 75% on 2024-25.
Help Point calls 8,886 calls answered by Help Point for advice, information and support in 2025-26.

Key Outcomes

  • People across West Sussex gained tools and strategies to understand and manage their mental health for the long term, including 1,238 under-25s supported across all services.

Geography

South East

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
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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
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
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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
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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