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ActivLives Impact Report 2025/26: A Year of Changing Lives Across Ipswich and Suffolk

ActivLives' Impact Report 2025/26 covers the charity's 20th year since the Town & Bridge Project started, with services reaching people across Ipswich, Mid-Suffolk, Babergh and East Suffolk. It supported 1,772 members, and 1,499 people with different types of disabilities benefited from its programmes. Keep on Moving sessions recorded 12,754 attendances across 738 sessions, and the final year of the Grow Your Future learning and skills programme brought its total to nine 12-week courses for 104 people, with 16 completers progressing into employment.

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ActivLives is an Ipswich-based charity helping people of all ages and abilities to live healthier, more connected lives through gardening and nature projects, ActivSheds, community beekeeping, and movement and exercise programmes such as Keep on Moving, Strength and Balance and BreatheFit, across Ipswich and Suffolk.

Key Metrics

12,754 attendances at Keep on Moving sessions, across 738 sessions
1,772 members supported in 2025/26
1,499 people with different types of disabilities benefited from its programmes and services

Key Outcomes

  • 87 people completed the Grow Your Future course, with 16 people (18%, against a 10% target) progressing into employment
  • 53.28% of Strength and Balance members reported improvement in self-confidence after joining
  • 182 people registered as volunteers at its gardens, ActivSheds, nature spaces and beekeeping project

Geography

East of England

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