Impact Report 2024 (covering 2022/23)

Hackney CVS is the voluntary and community sector infrastructure body for City and Hackney, supporting 2,627 registered charities. In 2022-23, 540 organisations received infrastructure support; 93 grants worth £881,138 were distributed through Hackney Giving including 43 cost-of-living grants supporting 4,467 households; 37 training events reached 472 attendees; and £1,492,887 was invested across the local VCS. 97% of forum attendees rated content as high quality.

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📋About

Organisational development (training, advice, governance); Hackney Giving grants programme; VCS Neighbourhoods Programme; health transformation / VCS Enabler Programme; Lunch Club Network (12 clubs, residents 55+); youth leadership programmes; VCS Assemblies; anti-racist commissioning; neighbourhood forums Custom geography from upload: London Borough of Hackney / City of London

📊Key Metrics

540 organisations provided with infrastructure support; £1,492,887 invested across City & Hackney VCS Key Metric 1
93 grants made to 71 VCS organisations totalling £881,138; 43 cost-of-living grants supporting 4,467 households Key Metric 2
37 training events with 472 attendees; 34 network meetings with 297 attendees; 24 neighbourhood forums with 286 attendees Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 97% of forum attendees rated them as high quality; 94% rated information and advice as high quality; 92% would recommend Hackney CVS
  • Anti-racist commissioning principles co-produced through VCS Enabler Programme; Tree of Life mental health programme delivered in schools through Youth Leadership Model
  • VCS Neighbourhoods Programme expanded to all 8 Hackney neighbourhoods; 88.7% of local VCS organisations reported increase in demand for services (60% said drastic increase); 25,326 individuals visited hcvs.org.uk

📍Geography

London

2025

Impact Report 2025

£1,061,931.34 awarded to 249 projects supporting 169 organisations in 2024/25; 120,000 people supported
Key Metric 1
Four consecutive years of £1m+ granting — fourth most successful granting year ever; 120,894 total beneficiaries across Berkshire; top beneficiary groups: children and young people, victims of crime/violence/abuse, older people
Key Metric 2
Last Resort Fund supported 27 charities and community groups; Together for Women and Children Fund awarded £1.29m to 224 projects reaching 35,000+ vulnerable women and children since 2019; IDVA hospital-based domestic abuse advocates funded
Key Metric 3
Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities; Former PM Baroness May of Maidenhead spoke at Together for Women and Children event; Amanda Stephens (Olly's Work) addressed supporters on children's online safety
2025

Annual Impact Report 2024/25

£1,731,376 distributed through 275 grants to 138 groups and organisations; 244 nominations, 18 awards, 150 guests at Derby Volunteer Awards Night
Key Metric 1
Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme: 16,459 children in summer, 4,468 in Easter, 2,459 in winter — across 36 summer, 32 Easter and 22 winter providers; £1,031,657 in HAF grants allocated/facilitated
Key Metric 2
Derby Social Prescribing: average 175 referrals per month (2,100 per year); 10,901 attendances across 585 DE23 Active sessions (11 trained volunteers); Warm Welcome Hub grants: 84 providers, £233k, 69,768 people supported through cost of living
Key Metric 3
Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities through DHIP; 130 families supported via Youth Alliance referrals from schools, further education, housing providers, youth offending service and Derbyshire Constabulary
2024

Impact Report 2022-2024

£81,592,894 disbursed between November 2022 and March 2024; Youth Investment Fund (YIF) — largest fund SIB has ever managed — expanding youth provision in England's most underserved communities
Key Metric 1
Reach Fund supported 170 organisations with £1,922,475 in readiness grants (Dec 2022 – Mar 2024); 33 social investors working with Reach Fund; Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) has supported 330+ organisations with £8m+ in grants since 2018
Key Metric 2
Diversity dashboard covers 11 funds; 46% of successful BAME-led and environmental EDP round organisations in most deprived 20% of areas; team doubled in size with YIF addition
Key Metric 3
YIF expanded youth service provision in communities with highest levels of disadvantage; EDP organisations in Round 4 include women's centre in West Midlands and community energy organisation in London; CEO changes and board renewal with thanks to Chair Hazel Blears (8-year term ending)