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YoungMinds Impact Report 2025

YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity fighting for young people's mental health, working to ensure no young person feels alone with their mental health and that help reaches people before crisis point. Its 2025 impact report covers three strategic programmes: Never Alone (reaching 1.1 million young people with mental health guides), Someone To Turn To (supporting 12,000 parents via its Helpline and training 4,287 trusted adults), and Powerful Young Voices (securing £5 million for 24 early support hubs through advocacy). Total fundraising income was £7.55 million, including £2.7 million from its M&S partnership. The year also saw a strengthened AJEDI commitment, with content from 21 Black, Muslim and Queer Disabled contributors.

Report snapshot
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📋About

Never Alone (direct digital support for young people including mental health guides, help finder tool, blogs and paid media reaching nearly 2 million people); Someone To Turn To (Parents and Carers Helpline, professional training in youth mental health, parent/carer online advice); Powerful Young Voices (youth-led campaigns including A Million Pressures and Future Minds gathering 12,000 signatures; advocacy for early mental health support hubs); AJEDI programme with culturally relevant content from 21 Black, Muslim and Queer Disabled contributors

📊Key Metrics

1.1 million young people accessed practical mental health guides; parents and carers viewed online advice 1.7 million times; 12,000 adults received direct support through the Parents and Carers Helpline Key Metric 1
4,287 trusted adults trained across 125 courses; 93% said they felt more confident to support young people; 'Fund the Hubs' campaign helped secure £5 million for a pilot of 24 early mental health support hubs Key Metric 2
£7,547,199 raised from fundraising activities; Hello Yellow 2024 mobilised 8,300+ supporters and 6,956 schools; M&S partnership raised £2.7 million Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Help finder tool for young people viewed over 100,000 times; help finder for parents and carers accessed by over 40,000 people; parent and carer blog viewed over 80,000 times; 65 new blogs written by and for young people
  • Fund the Hubs campaign secured £5 million for 24 early support hub pilot — direct policy win from youth-led advocacy; AJEDI commitment embedded across the organisation to tackle inequalities in access and experience
  • Web guides viewed over 1 million times; paid campaign drove 111,907 visits to support content; report covers a year of significant organisational change yet saw increased reach across all programmes

📍Geography

UK-Wide

2026 Enhanced

Impact — Winter 2026

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 charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks
Key Metric 1
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 fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal
Key Metric 2
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 Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms
Key Metric 3
£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
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 1
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 2
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
Key Metric 3
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence