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Kingston Voluntary Action Impact Report 2025/26

Kingston Voluntary Action shared its 2025/26 Impact Report on 1 October 2026, showcasing a year of progress, innovation and collective action across Kingston, supporting local charities, community groups and volunteers.

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About

Kingston Voluntary Action (charity no. 1160403) is the local infrastructure charity supporting voluntary and community organisations, volunteers and partners across the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Key Metrics

Organisations supported 272 unique organisations supported in Kingston in 2025/26, including 102 Community Accountancy sessions and 41 Setting up Groups sessions.
Funding secured £1,165,172 brought into the borough through KVA support, with 221 funding interventions delivered.
Grants distributed 35 grants distributed to local organisations.
Funding intelligence 488 funding opportunities posted, 49 Funder Focus pages and 20,555 combined views across KVA funding resources.

Key Outcomes

  • Local charities and community groups in Kingston were stronger, better funded and better connected, with communities, organisations, volunteers and partners achieving more together.

Geography

London

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
Impact Snapshot
Annual social value
GBP 2.3 million of annual social value created through football participation, volunteering and community programmes.
Grassroots football improved health and wellbeing, brought people together, developed volunteers and created opportunities for thousands of local people of all ages and abilities across Faversham and the surrounding area.