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Youth PWR Charity Impact Report 2024

Youth PWR Charity's 2024 impact report shows over 1,743 young people engaged across skills enrichment, employability and wellbeing programmes in London. 53% of participants secured employment within six months of skills sessions, and 69% secured more interviews following employability workshops.

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About

Skills enrichment programmes; employability workshops and work experience (including via Youth PWR Magazine); leisure and recreational programmes; social action participation programme; creative digital media training

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,743+ young people engaged
Key Metric 2 53% secured employment opportunities within 6 months of skills enrichment sessions
Key Metric 3 69% secured more interviews following employability workshops and work experience with PWR Magazine

Key Outcomes

  • 100% felt they had increased knowledge of different industries following skills enrichment sessions
  • 96% reported increased self-esteem and self-worth following leisure and recreational participation
  • 94% of young people in the social action programme reported improved communication skills

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni