Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
The Cellar Trust

The Cellar Trust Impact Report 2024–25

The Cellar Trust is a Bradford-based mental health charity delivering peer support, crisis intervention, employment support and therapy across Bradford District. In 2024/25 it supported 12,360 people across 37,623 sessions — a 9% increase — and won the Charity Times Cross Sector Collaboration Award for its MAST hospital peer support service, which kept 90% of people out of re-admission. Safe Spaces crisis hubs saw a 93% increase in people supported, with referrals rising 36% from Yorkshire Ambulance Service. The charity opened Farfield, a new integrated health and wellbeing centre in Shipley, in July 2025, made possible through the Shipley Towns Fund.

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HOPE intensive peer support for people with complex trauma (387 people, 1,245 sessions); Modality Peer Support Service in GP settings (165 people, 99% improved wellbeing); MAST multi-agency support in hospitals (3,232 people, 5,866 hospital sessions + 2,132 community); Pathways to Employment for SMI (317 people, 49% increase in referrals); Talking Therapies Employment (753 people, 267 discharged into work); Trust Therapies counselling and psychotherapy (895 people, 4,775 sessions); Reach peer support in CMHT settings (324 people); CORE community-based SMI support (150 people); Enablement and Recovery residential (12 residents, 1,798 sessions); Safe Spaces urgent mental health crisis hubs; Craven Connect and Keighley Pathways Custom geography from upload: Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, West Yorkshire, UK

📊Key Metrics

12,360 people supported — a 4% increase; 37,623 sessions of support delivered — a 9% increase; 730+ sessions delivered per week across sites, hospitals, GP surgeries and communities Key Metric 1
96% of people would recommend The Cellar Trust to friends and family; £6,852,100 total income — 90% increase (includes £2.6 million Shipley Towns Fund capital for Farfield); 101 employees and 20 associates Key Metric 2
MAST won 'Charity Collaboration of the Year' at the Charity Times Awards; 4,995 people supported through Safe Spaces crisis service — a 93% increase; Safe Spaces saw 36% increase in referrals from Yorkshire Ambulance Service reducing A&E admissions Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • HOPE: 88% showed measurable wellbeing improvement; 100% with SMI reported improved emotional and self-management; 97% with trauma histories experienced increased emotional safety
  • Modality Peer Support Service: 99% improved in wellbeing with 52% average increase in WEMWBS scores; 5% DNA rate (low), reflecting strength of peer-delivered relational model
  • Pathways to Employment: 47% increase in people achieving positive employment outcomes; youth referrals increased 118%; MAST: 90% not re-admitted to hospital; 87% showed improved wellbeing (34% average WEMWBS increase)

📍Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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