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Impact Report 2025-26

Child Accident Prevention Trust's impact report for 2025-26 reports its widest reach to date: 744,300 families reached via hospital digital screens, 20.5 million views of safety advice on Facebook, a 7,860-strong trained frontline network, 60,000+ free resource downloads, and a policy win securing child-resistant window restrictors in the revised Decent Homes Standard.

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About

The UK charity working to prevent death and serious injury to children from avoidable accidents, through family education, frontline training and policy change

Key Metrics

Families reached in hospitals 744,300 families reached with child safety advice via digital screens across 15 hospitals and NHS trusts by March 2026
Safety advice views 20.5 million views of CAPT safety advice on Facebook in 2025-26 (up from 5.5m), with 489,000 advice page views on the website
Frontline staff trained 7,860 frontline staff mobilised, trained and resourced UK-wide; over 60,000 downloads of free safety resources

Key Outcomes

  • Families helped prevent death and life-changing injury to children: 77% said CAPT advice helped them make changes to keep their child safer
  • Secured child-resistant window restrictors in the revised Decent Homes Standard after CAPT and the National Child Mortality Database responded to the Government housing consultation
  • Scar Free project distributed 28,000 free resources through 250+ grassroots groups in Manchester, the UK city with the highest number of serious childhood burns

Geography

UK-Wide

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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...
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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...
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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
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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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
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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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
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
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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