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Impact Report 2025

The Sleep Charity's 2025 impact report covers April 2024 to March 2025, detailing commissioned sleep support for 236 families, training for 580 professionals through its Sleep Well Academy, and over 2,400 calls answered via its National Sleep Helpline. It highlights national campaigning for a Sleep Strategy, the launch of the Lincolnshire Sleep Hub, and reach through resources, webinars and its Sleep for All Conference.

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About

Provides commissioned sleep intervention services for children and families in funded areas, a National Sleep Helpline, professional training through the Sleep Well Academy, free downloadable sleep advice resources, a Teen Sleep Hub, the Lincolnshire Sleep Hub for adults, and national campaigning including a manifesto for a National Sleep Strategy.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 236 families supported to a good night's sleep through commissioned sleep intervention services
Key Metric 2 580 professionals trained through the Sleep Well Academy
Key Metric 3 2,490 calls answered by the National Sleep Helpline

Key Outcomes

  • 100% of Sleep for All Conference attendees rated the event as excellent or good and relevant to their professional development
  • 99% positive feedback from participants of Lincolnshire Sleep Hub roadshows and events, which directly engaged 301 people
  • 132 professionals completed the charity's flagship Sleep Practitioner course, enabling them to deliver its evidence-based sleep intervention

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

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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Key Metric 1
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
Key Metric 3
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
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
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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Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£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