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Impetus Impact Report 2024/25

Impetus is a venture philanthropy charity transforming the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by building exceptional organisations in education and employment. Their 2024/25 impact report records 403,743 young people served across 27 partners, £8.5m in value delivered, and continued policy influence with reports presented at the Houses of Parliament.

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Long-term grant funding, investment team support, pro bono expertise, strategy development, impact measurement, policy influencing, Impetus Leadership Academy

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 403,743 young people served across 27 portfolio partner organisations
Key Metric 2 £8.5 million in value delivered to portfolio partners; £2.1 million in pro bono support
Key Metric 3 Partners grow income 6x and reach 7x on average over a 7-year partnership with Impetus

Key Outcomes

  • Portfolio partners beat national benchmarks in SATs maths, GCSE maths, university access and employment outcomes
  • 77% of young people served are outside London; 4 new partners welcomed including Business Launchpad, Breadwinners and two Multi Academy Trusts
  • 6 research reports launched including tutoring report at the House of Commons and Youth Jobs Gap research covered by the Financial Times

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni