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The King's Trust Group Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25

The King's Trust supports young people aged 16-30 facing barriers to employment and education. Their 2024/25 annual report records 67,368 young people supported across the UK, with 71% progressing to a positive outcome. The year marked a major rebrand and the launch of a bold new 2025–2030 strategy focused on ending youth unemployment.

Report snapshot
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Employment programmes, enterprise support, mentoring, personal development, volunteering, place-based outreach

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 67,368 young people supported through Education, Employability and Enterprise programmes
Key Metric 2 71% of respondents progressed into a positive outcome
Key Metric 3 70,028 course participations across the UK

Key Outcomes

  • More young people moved into work, education or training from disadvantaged backgrounds
  • New 2025–2030 strategy launched with focus on tackling inequality and building future workforce
  • Rebrand to The King's Trust completed, marking approach to 50th anniversary

Geography

UK-Wide

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
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni