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Impact Report 2022/23

TASC, The Ambulance Staff Charity provides independent, confidential wellbeing support to the UK's ambulance family — including paramedics, control room staff, managers, retirees and student paramedics. Their 2022/23 impact report covers 882 people helped (double pre-Covid), 7,700 contacts, 2,800 mental health sessions, a newly launched Crisis Phoneline and a stark funding warning — external mental health grant income fell 87% while demand grew 30%.

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About

Ambulance Staff Crisis Phoneline (531 calls in year of launch); counselling and 11 types of specialist mental health support; trauma therapy; bereavement support (160 hours); residential physical rehabilitation; financial guidance and income maximisation (512 sessions, £24,000 in grants); self-care interventions; suicidal thoughts programme (254 sessions); National Ambulance Memorial Service Custom geography from upload: UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 882 people helped in 2022/23 — double pre-Covid figures; 7,700 contacts from people seeking support
Key Metric 2 2,800 mental health sessions delivered; 512 financial guidance sessions; 3,786 self-care interventions accessed
Key Metric 3 Demand growing 30% every year; mental health grant income fallen 87% in one year despite rising need

Key Outcomes

  • 85% of people who used mental health services saw improvement in their wellbeing; 63% reduction in trauma symptoms; 44% reduction in anxiety and depression
  • People accessing financial services were £510 a month better off on average; 98% of service users would recommend TASC
  • 152% increase in the number of people contacting TASC compared to the previous year — driven by post-pandemic surge in ambulance staff mental health need and burnout

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
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...
Key Metric 2
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...
Key Metric 3
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
Key Metric 2
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
Key Metric 3
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