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Action Tutoring Impact Report 2024/25

Action Tutoring partners with schools across England to deliver volunteer-led tutoring for disadvantaged pupils. Their 2024/25 impact report records 3,735 pupils supported across 102 schools, with Year 6 pupils closing the reading attainment gap entirely and secondary pupils significantly more likely to pass GCSE English and maths than disadvantaged peers nationally.

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Volunteer tutoring, small group tuition, SATs and GCSE programmes, school partnerships, new delivery in Blackpool, Cumbria, Devon and Dorset Custom geography from upload: England

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 3,735 pupils supported across 102 school partners; 1,401 active volunteers delivering 42,479 sessions
Key Metric 2 Year 6 pupils closed the reading attainment gap — meeting expected standard at the same rate as non-disadvantaged peers nationally
Key Metric 3 Secondary pupils 10% more likely to pass GCSE English and 13% more likely to pass GCSE maths than disadvantaged peers nationally

Key Outcomes

  • Primary pupils 29% more likely to reach expected standard in reading and 20% more likely in maths after 10+ sessions
  • Won School Partnership Provider of the Year at National Tutoring Awards 2025; EEF RCT of secondary maths programme launched 2025/26
  • Operating beyond the National Tutoring Programme with strategic focus on evidence-building and geographic expansion to underserved communities

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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)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
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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
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91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
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Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
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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
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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
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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