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Impact Report 2025/26

Space Youth Services' Impact Report 2025/26, announced 29 September 2026, reports 3,224 young people directly supported across Devon, 4,145 sessions delivered by 95 staff, 1,320 young volunteer hours from 53 active young volunteers, 2,712 additional young people reached through partnerships, and 10,500+ wider lives influenced.

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About

A Devon youth work charity providing safe spaces and trusted relationships for young people through youth centres, targeted schools work, digital youth work and volunteering

Key Metrics

Young people supported 3,224 young people directly supported across Devon in 2025-26 through youth centres, schools work and community provision
Sessions delivered 4,145 sessions delivered by 95 staff with 27 adult and 53 active young volunteers contributing 1,320 young volunteer hours
Wider lives influenced 10,500+ wider lives influenced beyond direct participants, plus 2,712 additional young people reached through partnerships

Key Outcomes

  • Young people built trusted relationships and safe spaces, growing confidence and optimism about the future (Belong, Grow, Thrive framework)
  • Young people developed leadership skills through volunteering and shaped change in their own communities (Lead and Strengthen)
  • Professional youth work created healthier, stronger and more connected communities across Devon

Geography

South West

Impact Snapshot
568,000
babies reached by Bookstart Baby in 2025/26 (93% of all babies born)
Over 1.1 million
children and families engaged with Bookstart programmes in 2025/26
80%
of parents and carers receiving Bookstart Baby say they now read or share books and stories more with their child
445,600 children aged 1-4 reached through Bookstart Toddler and Pre-schooler, including 37% of all 1-4-year-olds living in low-income households
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Young people sailing
1,224 young people sailed in 2025/26 out of 1,889 individuals reached, an 11% increase, delivering 4,716 nights at sea.
Bursary support
85% of the young people who sailed received financial bursary support; 77% had never sailed before and 21% identify as belonging to the Global...
Qualifications earned
776 nationally recognised qualifications earned, including 630 RYA Start Yachting and 126 RYA Competent Crew awards.
Young people unlocked their potential through ocean voyages, with 204 recommended to return as volunteers, a direct pathway into blue economy careers, and 12 competing in the 2025 Rolex Fastnet Race.