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Armed Forces Community HQ CIC Impact Report 2025/26

Armed Forces Community HQ CIC published its Impact Report for April 2025 to March 2026 on 28 September 2026, a record year of preventing crisis, restoring stability and building futures for the Armed Forces community across Wigan, Greater Manchester and the wider North West.

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About

Armed Forces Community HQ CIC (company no. 11246325) provides trauma-informed spaces where members of the Armed Forces community can connect, heal and thrive, aligned to work across all 10 Greater Manchester local authorities.

Key Metrics

Social value generated £9.3 million in social value generated during 2025-26, preventing crisis, restoring stability and building futures.
Veterans supported 500+ veterans supported through the HQ community and programmes.
Wellbeing improved £953K of social value attributed to improved wellbeing scores among members of the Armed Forces community.
Volunteer contribution £10.5K of volunteer social value contributed alongside partners, volunteers and lived-experience voices.

Key Outcomes

  • Members of the Armed Forces community connected, healed and thrived, with support reaching people earlier to reduce crisis and disadvantage and strengthen communities.

Geography

North West

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Annual social value
GBP 2.3 million of annual social value created through football participation, volunteering and community programmes.
Grassroots football improved health and wellbeing, brought people together, developed volunteers and created opportunities for thousands of local people of all ages and abilities across Faversham and the surrounding area.