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Child Bereavement UK: Our impact 2023-24

In its financial year ending 31 August 2024, Child Bereavement UK provided ongoing support to 3,188 children, young people and adults to help them rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. There were 554 attendances at its support groups, 10% more than the year before, and it ran 1,104 training sessions for 12,773 professionals, 22% more than last year. 1,500 volunteers gave 7,492 hours of their time, and its online resources for schools received over 100,000 page views.

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Child Bereavement UK helps children and young people (up to age 25), parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies, and trains professionals to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

Key Metrics

3,188 children, young people and adults given ongoing bereavement support
12,773 professionals trained across 1,104 training sessions
7,492 hours given by 1,500 volunteers

Key Outcomes

  • 554 attendances at support groups (+10% on last year), reducing isolation for bereaved children, young people and adults
  • 2,769 education professionals trained to support bereaved pupils, plus Bereavement Support Training for staff at 40 schools
  • Online resources for schools received over 100,000 page views, with a new resource to support pupils with SEND

Geography

UK-Wide

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...
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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
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
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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
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