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Show Racism the Red Card Annual Review 2024

Show Racism the Red Card's Annual Review 2024, introduced by honorary president Shaka Hislop and chief executive Ged Grebby, gives an overview of the charity's achievements and total reach in a year marred by far-right riots. It covers key events including Wear Red Day 2024, the schools competition and the migration project; its schools educational programmes, adult education and workforce initiatives and teachers' and educators' initiatives; regional impact and a North Highland case study; social media highlights; testimonials; trustees and sponsors.

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About

Show Racism the Red Card is the UK's leading anti-racism educational charity, using the high profile of football and sport to deliver anti-racism education in schools, workplaces and communities.

Key Metrics

Over 50,112 young people educated across 369 schools in 2024
23,662 adults, including educators and school staff, given anti-racism training
710,000 people took part in Wear Red Day 2024

Key Outcomes

  • Anti-racism education delivered in schools and workplaces across the UK
  • Wear Red Day 2024 campaign and the national schools competition
  • Regional programmes across England, Scotland and Wales

Geography

UK-Wide

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