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Impact Report 2025-26

Deafblind UK's Impact Report 2025-26 shows how the charity helps people living with deafblindness build confidence, maintain independence and stay connected through specialist support, technology, education, research and campaigning, supporting 4,346 people and delivering more than 38,700 direct support interventions in the year.

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About

Deafblind UK is a registered charity (No. 802976) supporting people living with deafblindness across the UK through specialist support, technology, education, research and campaigning.

Key Metrics

People supported 4,346 people supported with dual sensory loss in 2025-26
Support interventions More than 38,700 direct support interventions delivered in 2025-26
Befriending calls made 9,620 befriending calls made to combat isolation in 2025-26
Wellbeing calls made 8,864 wellbeing calls made in 2025-26
Volunteers 374 volunteers gave their time and expertise in 2025-26

Key Outcomes

  • 4,346 people living with deafblindness were supported to build confidence, maintain independence and stay connected.
  • 9,620 befriending calls were made to combat isolation among people with dual sensory loss.
  • More than 38,700 direct support interventions were delivered across specialist support, technology, education, research and campaigning.

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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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...
Key Metric 2
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...
Key Metric 3
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
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
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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Key Metric 1
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