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Support at Scale: Our Impact 2024-2025

Mental Health Innovations' impact report for April 2024 to March 2025 covers the Shout 24/7 crisis text service and The Mix, the digital charity for under-25s. The Shout text service took 585,988 conversations with 239,256 people, nearly 4,000 volunteers gave more than 164,000 hours, and 139,000 people aged 25 and under contacted Shout while The Mix supported 155,000 under-25s.

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Mental Health Innovations is the charity behind Shout, the UK's free, confidential 24/7 text support service, and The Mix, the digital support charity for people aged 25 and under, which merged in 2024. Its impact report Support at Scale: Our Impact 2024-2025 records 585,988 Shout conversations with 239,256 people, nearly 4,000 volunteers giving more than 164,000 hours across The Mix and Shout, 139,000 people aged 25 and under supported through Shout and 155,000 under-25s supported by The Mix through online counselling, its chatbot and community discussion boards, more than 718,000 visits to the Shout website and more than one million people visiting The Mix website. The charity now has more than 3,800 active Shout Volunteers trained to assess risk, de-escalate a crisis and listen without judgement.

Key Metrics

585,988 conversations taken by the Shout text service with 239,256 people
164,000+ hours given by nearly 4,000 volunteers across The Mix and Shout
155,000 under-25s supported by The Mix through online counselling, chatbot and community discussion boards

Key Outcomes

  • 139,000 people aged 25 and under who contacted Shout were supported in 2024/25
  • More than 3,800 active Shout Volunteers trained to assess risk, de-escalate a crisis and listen without judgement
  • More than one million people visited The Mix website and more than 718,000 visited the Shout website for help and support

Geography

UK-Wide

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...
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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...
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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
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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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
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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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
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
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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