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Because of You: Impact Report 2025/26

Home-Start Arun, Worthing & Adur's 'Because of You' Impact Report 2025/26, published in the charity's 25th anniversary year, shows £240,370 raised and 336 local children directly supported, against a backdrop of severe need among referred families - 83% facing mental health issues, 46% domestic abuse and 88% isolation - building on more than 4,250 families and 9,500 children helped since the charity's founding.

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One-to-one home-visiting volunteer support for families with at least one child under five, family groups, counselling, and practical and emotional support for families facing mental health issues, domestic abuse, isolation and poverty

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £240,370 raised and 336 local children directly impacted during the charity's 25th anniversary year (2025/26)
Key Metric 2 Over 4,250 families supported and more than 9,500 children's lives improved since the charity was founded
Key Metric 3 At the point of referral, 83% of families were experiencing mental health issues, 46% domestic abuse, and 88% reported feeling isolated

Key Outcomes

  • Early intervention support helped families move from crisis toward stability, with case studies showing improved parental confidence and safer home environments for children
  • 25 new volunteers recruited and trained as part of the charity's 25th-anniversary appeal, extending capacity to support more local families
  • Strong community fundraising in its milestone 25th year, with over £240,000 raised to sustain and grow local services

Geography

South East

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities