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Local Solutions Impact Report 2025/26

Local Solutions is a charity working across the Liverpool City Region and North Wales to end homelessness, transform care and support carers. Its Impact Report 2025/26 shows 35,486 people supported, 396,620 hours of care delivered in people's homes, and GBP 23.5m of social and economic value generated.

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Local Solutions is a charity working across the Liverpool City Region and North Wales. Its work spans ending homelessness, transforming social care and supporting unpaid carers, alongside watersports, Mytime breaks for carers, Bullybusters sessions in schools and AIMS Schools sessions, creating positive change with communities, partners, volunteers and staff.

Key Metrics

People supported 35,486 people supported by Local Solutions in 2025/26 across homelessness, care and carers services.
Hours of home care 396,620 hours of care delivered in people's homes, with 1,259 people supported to live independently at home.
Social and economic value GBP 23.5m of social and economic value generated in 2025/26.
Safer and more secure 89% of people supported to stabilise their accommodation and 79% of people supported felt safer and more secure.

Key Outcomes

  • 35,486 people across the Liverpool City Region and North Wales supported to live healthier, safer and more connected lives.
  • 743 people supported into safe temporary accommodation and 106 people given a safe place to stay through Supported Lodgings.

Geography

North West

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
Families supported
380 families referred for targeted Early Help support, with 800 families reached through events and drop-ins.
Social Prescribing referrals
5,772 referrals received across nine Primary Care Networks by the Social Prescribing team.
Household Support Fund
GBP 349,510 of Household Support Fund money distributed straight into Edgbaston households when they needed it most.
800 families connected to support through Early Help, events and drop-ins across Edgbaston and Northfield.