Impact Report 2026

The Rory Peck Trust is an international NGO supporting freelance journalists and their families worldwide through crisis grants, trauma therapy, hostile environment training and safety resources. Their 2026 impact report highlights support for 400+ journalists across crisis assistance, therapy, training and safety clinics globally.

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📋About

Crisis Fund, Therapy Fund, Training Fund, Safety Clinics, Risk & Safety Helpdesk, Rory Peck Awards

📊Key Metrics

400+ freelance journalists supported across all programmes Key Metric 1
112 journalists received assistance grants from Crisis Fund or Therapy Fund Key Metric 2
223 journalists completed training workshops (hostile environment, first aid, digital security, psychological resilience) Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 81 journalists received specialist safety advice via Safety Clinics in Amman and Johannesburg and online Risk & Safety Helpdesk
  • Over 3,000 freelance journalists given assistance grants since Trust founded in 1995; over £2.3m in grants distributed to date
  • Training delivered across UK, West Africa, Ukraine and Lebanon; reaching journalists in some of the world's most dangerous reporting environments

📍Geography

International

2025

Impact Report 2025

£1,061,931.34 awarded to 249 projects supporting 169 organisations in 2024/25; 120,000 people supported
Key Metric 1
Four consecutive years of £1m+ granting — fourth most successful granting year ever; 120,894 total beneficiaries across Berkshire; top beneficiary groups: children and young people, victims of crime/violence/abuse, older people
Key Metric 2
Last Resort Fund supported 27 charities and community groups; Together for Women and Children Fund awarded £1.29m to 224 projects reaching 35,000+ vulnerable women and children since 2019; IDVA hospital-based domestic abuse advocates funded
Key Metric 3
Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities; Former PM Baroness May of Maidenhead spoke at Together for Women and Children event; Amanda Stephens (Olly's Work) addressed supporters on children's online safety
2025

Annual Impact Report 2024/25

£1,731,376 distributed through 275 grants to 138 groups and organisations; 244 nominations, 18 awards, 150 guests at Derby Volunteer Awards Night
Key Metric 1
Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme: 16,459 children in summer, 4,468 in Easter, 2,459 in winter — across 36 summer, 32 Easter and 22 winter providers; £1,031,657 in HAF grants allocated/facilitated
Key Metric 2
Derby Social Prescribing: average 175 referrals per month (2,100 per year); 10,901 attendances across 585 DE23 Active sessions (11 trained volunteers); Warm Welcome Hub grants: 84 providers, £233k, 69,768 people supported through cost of living
Key Metric 3
Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities through DHIP; 130 families supported via Youth Alliance referrals from schools, further education, housing providers, youth offending service and Derbyshire Constabulary
2024

Impact Report 2022-2024

£81,592,894 disbursed between November 2022 and March 2024; Youth Investment Fund (YIF) — largest fund SIB has ever managed — expanding youth provision in England's most underserved communities
Key Metric 1
Reach Fund supported 170 organisations with £1,922,475 in readiness grants (Dec 2022 – Mar 2024); 33 social investors working with Reach Fund; Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) has supported 330+ organisations with £8m+ in grants since 2018
Key Metric 2
Diversity dashboard covers 11 funds; 46% of successful BAME-led and environmental EDP round organisations in most deprived 20% of areas; team doubled in size with YIF addition
Key Metric 3
YIF expanded youth service provision in communities with highest levels of disadvantage; EDP organisations in Round 4 include women's centre in West Midlands and community energy organisation in London; CEO changes and board renewal with thanks to Chair Hazel Blears (8-year term ending)