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Adferiad Impact Report 2025-26

Adferiad's Impact Report 2025-26 shares a year of growth, change and achievement for Wales' leading charity for people affected by mental illness and addiction, spanning mental health, substance use, housing and homelessness, veterans, gambling-related harms, criminal justice, young people and employment support.

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About

Adferiad is Wales' leading charity helping to change the lives of people affected by mental illness and addiction, a national voice rooted in local communities and led by the lived experience of its members.

Key Metrics

People supported More than 33,000 people supported through core services across Wales, Lancashire and beyond, with a further 18 services established or expanded during the year.
Peer support hours Over 182,000 hours of support delivered by Cyfle Cymru since its 2022 launch, with more than 9,900 registrations and 500 people helped into employment.
Sanctuary referrals More than 1,700 referrals received by adult Sanctuary services during 2025/26, while the Children and Young People's Sanctuary supported almost 400 young people.
Financial gains secured Over 1.4 million pounds in financial gains achieved for people supported by the Mental Health and Money Advice service.

Key Outcomes

  • More than 4,500 vulnerable adults were supported during police detention and interview by the Appropriate Adult Service, and 3,003 children and young people were reached through Bloom, Your Resilience and Me & Money programmes.

Geography

Wales

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
Key Metric 1
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
Key Metric 2
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
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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