Health & Wellbeing Education & Young People Free 2025

Impact Report 2024-25

Clear Sky Children's Charity is an Oxfordshire-based registered charity founded in 2010, delivering Play and Creative Arts Therapy to vulnerable children in schools and providing parenting, family support and professional training programmes. In its 15th anniversary year (2024/25), Clear Sky supported 2,268+ children across 43 schools, trained 412 professionals in accredited courses — a 62% increase — and launched its Emotionally Healthy Schools platform. Its reach now extends to Ireland, Singapore and Australia through licensed partners.

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📋About

One-to-one Play and Creative Arts Therapy in 43 Oxfordshire schools; Emotionally Healthy Schools online platform for whole-school mental health; parenting and family support programmes; professional CPD training; Institute for Play and Attachment (IPA) online hub; licensed partner network in Ireland, Singapore and UK regions

📊Key Metrics

2,268+ children and young people supported by a Clear Sky therapist in 2024/25 Key Metric 1
2,268+ therapy sessions delivered between September 2024 and August 2025; over 14,900 sessions in the last 8 years Key Metric 2
412 professionals trained in CPD-accredited practitioner courses in 2024/25 — a 62% increase on the previous year Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Exceeded £40,000 fundraising target in 2024/25 through events, corporate donations, trusts and grants
  • 14 Clear Sky therapists worked across 43 Oxfordshire schools; 50+ schools accessing the Emotionally Healthy Schools framework
  • 15th anniversary year: 135+ Attachment Play Practitioners in searchable directory supporting families across the UK and internationally

📍Geography

South East

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