Key Life Chances Report 2024/25

Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) is a national charity achieving equality and inclusion for blind and partially sighted (BPS) people, with over half its staff and more than 200 volunteers having lived experience of sight loss. In 2024/25 — the first year of its Key Life Chances strategy — TPT delivered employment support to 350+ people through Works For Me, with 58 securing jobs, and ran 31 Get Set Progress internships, 85% of which led to full-time employment. 333 students received education support and a new joint service with Guide Dogs launched in April 2025. TPT's 25 Sight Loss Councils expanded into Scotland, its #CutItBack campaign reached 100,000+ people, and it co-developed an NHS accessible bowel cancer screening tool. A YouGov-backed APPG report with 21 government recommendations was published jointly with RNIB, and TPT hosted the sector's first Lived Experience Leadership conference.

Report snapshot
350+ people received personalised employment support through Works For Me; 58 secured employment; 31 Get Set Progress internships delivered with 85% transitioning to full-time work Key Metric 1
333 students supported through education services; 25 active Sight Loss Councils across the UK including new expansion into Scotland Key Metric 2
Total income £4.26m (net property income £3.93m, grants and donations £329k); total expenditure £5.33m including £745k grants to other organisations and £4.47m internal charitable expenditure Key Metric 3
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📋About

Works For Me employment support; Get Set Progress internship programme (with RNIB funding); Sight Loss Councils (25 active, across England and Scotland); Young Voices and Student Voices volunteer programmes; education information, advice and guidance (new partnership with Guide Dogs from April 2025); VI awareness training for healthcare professionals; grant-making to partner organisations; #CutItBack and #MakeHealthAccessible campaigns; transport accessibility work; LEX Lived Experience Leadership conference

📊Key Metrics

350+ people received personalised employment support through Works For Me; 58 secured employment; 31 Get Set Progress internships delivered with 85% transitioning to full-time work Key Metric 1
333 students supported through education services; 25 active Sight Loss Councils across the UK including new expansion into Scotland Key Metric 2
Total income £4.26m (net property income £3.93m, grants and donations £329k); total expenditure £5.33m including £745k grants to other organisations and £4.47m internal charitable expenditure Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Co-authored report with RNIB and APPG on Eye Health containing 21 recommendations for government, based on YouGov poll of 2,000 employers; residential employment and assistive technology course oversubscribed fourfold
  • #CutItBack campaign on overgrown street vegetation reached over 100,000 people prompting local authority action; secured Your Station Your Community grant improving accessibility at six rail stations; UK's first e-learning course on inclusive transport design launched with CIHT
  • 325+ pieces of print and 25 broadcast media coverage generated; NHS bowel cancer screening tool co-developed to make testing accessible to people with sight loss; VI awareness training delivered to 250+ medical students at Newcastle University

📍Geography

UK-Wide

2025

Annual Report 2024/25

£20.8m raised in 2024/25 (up from £17.4m in 2023/24)
Key Metric 1
£9.6m raised from 176 legacy gifts; £14m committed to new Total Body PET-CT scanner
Key Metric 2
49,000 active supporters; 3,857 running participants (doubled in 3 years); 83p in every £1 goes directly to patients
Key Metric 3
MyChristie-MyHealth ePROMs system reduces clinician time on routine reviews by up to 23% and enables earlier symptom detection
2026

Impact Report Year Ending April 2026

2,829 children, parents, siblings and grandparents supported; 506 families with a child in treatment
Key Metric 1
220 bereaved families supported; 424 individuals on 93 boat trips; 692 individuals in 165 cabin breaks
Key Metric 2
£71,935 unlocked in essential support; 1,320 social work hours; 188 creative therapy sessions and 271 counselling sessions delivered
Key Metric 3
Families show average 0.7 point improvement across five Mo's Outcomes after support begins; biggest gains in social participation and accessing emotional support