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Eat Sleep Ride Impact Report 2025

Eat Sleep Ride is a social enterprise in the Scottish Borders using horses, land and community to create opportunities for connection, confidence and leadership from a reclaimed former landfill site. Its Impact Report 2025 records over 400 participants engaging with its programmes, 8 young people supported into employment, 36 free ASN sessions and 40 subsidised sessions for families under financial pressure.

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About

Eat Sleep Ride is a community interest company based on a reclaimed former landfill site in the Scottish Borders. It brings together rescued horses, young people, volunteers and families through its riding school, equine services, youth and community wellbeing programmes and leadership development, blending social impact with sustainable enterprise.

Key Metrics

Participants engaged Over 400 participants engaged with Eat Sleep Ride programmes and activities in 2025.
Young people into employment 8 young people aged 14-20 supported into employment opportunities.
Free and subsidised sessions 36 free ASN sessions delivered and 40 subsidised sessions provided for families experiencing financial pressure.
New riders 88 new riders joined the programme in 2025.

Key Outcomes

  • Over 400 people built connection, confidence and leadership through equine-facilitated learning.
  • 8 young people aged 14-20 moved into employment opportunities.

Geography

Scotland

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...
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
Impact Snapshot
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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