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Stripey Stork Impact Report 2025

Stripey Stork's Impact Report 2025 shows the Surrey and Croydon baby bank responded to requests to support 16,907 families with 30,280 children during the year, a 25% like-for-like increase on 2024. Referrals came from 1,254 referral partners across 441 organisations, and 297 regular volunteers gave 19,083 volunteer hours.

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About

Stripey Stork is a baby bank based in Redhill, Surrey, that provides donated and new essential items for children aged 0-18 to families in need across Surrey and Croydon, through referrals from health visitors, social workers, schools, housing associations and other professionals. Its Impact Report 2025 records support for 16,907 families and 30,280 children, a 25% like-for-like increase in families helped and a 21% increase in items given out compared with 2024, referrals from 1,254 partners across 441 organisations, 297 regular volunteers contributing 19,083 volunteer hours (including 2,839 corporate hours), and items distributed worth £1,593,369. Partners report that without the service 60% of families would have gone without items or into debt, and 53% more School Days referrals were delivered in 2025. Stripey Stork is registered charity 1161613.

Key Metrics

16,907 families supported in 2025, with 30,280 children
1,254 referral partners across 441 organisations
19,083 volunteer hours given by 297 regular volunteers

Key Outcomes

  • A 25% like-for-like increase in families supported and a 21% increase in items given out compared with 2024
  • Partners report that without the project 60% of families would have gone without items or into debt
  • 53% more School Days referrals delivered in 2025, with items worth £1,593,369 distributed

Geography

South East

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved