Impact Report 2024–2025

Age UK Exeter supports people over 50 across Exeter through a range of person-centred services. In 2024–25, the charity made 2,800 contacts per month, secured £361,342 in benefit entitlements in six months, helped 600 people return home after hospital, and supported 354 clients through its Enabling & Home Support Service. Delivered by 51 staff and 99 volunteers, the charity reached people facing isolation, digital exclusion, and health challenges in a city where 33% of the population is over 50.

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📋About

Services for people over 50 in Exeter including Information & Advice, Hospital to Home, Volunteer Visiting, Enabling & Home Support, Daycare, Handyperson, and Budding Friends; delivered by 51 staff and 99 volunteers; 33% of Exeter's population is over 50

📊Key Metrics

2,800 contacts per month with older people across all services; 600 people supported through the Hospital to Home service (April 2024–March 2025) Key Metric 1
£361,342 in benefit entitlements secured for clients in a six-month period through the Information & Advice service; 580 individual clients supported (June 2024–June 2025) Key Metric 2
354 Enabling & Home Support clients; 285 Handyperson clients; 139 Volunteer Visiting clients; 86 Daycare clients; 27 Budding Friends clients supported in 2024–25 Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 580 Information & Advice clients supported with 2,283 contacts in the year June 2024–June 2025; 338 were first-time clients accessing the charity's services
  • Enabling & Home Support Service enabled a client with a leg amputation to lead the Festival of Devon in the 1920s project, resulting in a British Association for Local History Outstanding Individual Contribution award and election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2025
  • 26% of 2024 survey respondents identified digitalisation as a key challenge — just below health concerns and above loneliness — reflecting the charity's focus on digital inclusion alongside practical home support

📍Geography

South West

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