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Impact Report 2024-25

LDN London's Impact Report 2024-25, promoted by the charity on 22 October 2026, reports 11,453 support hours delivered to 203 people across adult housing services, 7,853 hours through Kids Can Achieve outreach, and 440 London families supported through the Family Service.

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About

A London charity supporting people with learning disabilities and their families through housing, community hubs, outreach and family services

Key Metrics

Adult housing support hours 11,453 support hours delivered to 203 people across all LDN London adult housing services
Outreach support hours 7,853 hours of support through the Kids Can Achieve Outreach Community Support Service
Families supported 440 London families supported through the Family Service; 30 companies volunteered at Community Engagement Hubs

Key Outcomes

  • People with learning disabilities supported to make their own choices, live independently and follow their hopes and dreams
  • Society perceptions of learning disability challenged, from a supported rapper recording his first single to people achieving health goals
  • Quality Checkers programme put people supported in charge of reviewing services to make sure they meet needs

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
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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
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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
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
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