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Impact Report 2024

Veterans Aid provides emergency accommodation and crisis support to homeless and at-risk veterans, with a 90% success rate and economic saving to the taxpayer of up to £2.6m per year.

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Emergency accommodation, crisis support, housing pathways, mental health, welfare advice Custom geography from upload: London & UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 90% success rate (Cambridge Econometrics audit)
Key Metric 2 Nights of accommodation provided: 125,334 since 2018
Key Metric 3 Economic saving to taxpayer: up to £2.6 million

Key Outcomes

  • Maintained 90% success rate confirmed by independent Cambridge Econometrics audit
  • 62% of those seeking help were in crisis due to poverty
  • 19% of clients were Foreign & Commonwealth veterans — a growing cohort

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Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
438,000 pets treated across 49 Pet Hospitals, equivalent to 4,700 pets every working day
Key Metric 2
Over 2 million treatments provided; veterinary services cost over £85 million, funded entirely by donations
Key Metric 3
327,000 children reached with pet education messages; Pet Health Hub received over 4 million online visitors
Veterinary care provided to the pets of over 360,000 people in financial hardship across the UK, with 46% of clients disabled or living with a serious health condition
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Key Metric 1
2.4 million benefits calculations completed via free Benefits Calculator
Key Metric 2
1.5 million people identified new benefits worth an average of £5,396 each (£12.9bn total)
Key Metric 3
£3 million in grants awarded, supporting 2,164 people across the UK
4.8 million people accessed the Turn2us website for information on claiming support they are entitled to
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
7,325 individual children supported; 9,269 instances of support across the year; 6,660 referrals fulfilled; 485 emergency newborn hospital packs delivered to 23 London hospitals...
Key Metric 2
734 regular volunteers; 31,348 volunteer hours; 146 one-off volunteers (700+ hours); 99 corporate volunteer groups (3,900 hours)
Key Metric 3
Items gifted worth over £3 million (if new); 128 tonnes of goods redistributed; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved for families via signposting;...
Connections and signposting: Family Connections team spoke to 2,764 families; signposting support provided 1,037 times; 77% of signposting recipients had never accessed similar help before; £22,714 in financial support secured or saved