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Voices in Exile Impact Report 2025

Voices in Exile's Impact Report 2025 covers its support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants at risk in Brighton & Hove and Sussex. In 2025 the charity supported 1,009 clients in total, helped 167 people on Home Office resettlement programmes to settle in Brighton & Hove, provided 178 people with housing support, delivered around 10,000 meals and disbursed over £50,000 from its hardship fund.

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About

Voices in Exile supports refugees, asylum seekers and migrants at risk as they face social, legal and economic barriers to stability in the UK, through immigration advice, generalist advice, resettlement support, ESOL classes, a food bank and group programmes. Its Impact Report 2025 records 1,009 clients supported in total, 167 people on Home Office resettlement programmes (including 12 new families) helped to settle in Brighton & Hove, 178 people provided with housing support, around 200 children supported with food provision and around 10,000 meals provided, and over £50,000 of hardship fund spending. Among ESOL participants, 95% reported improved confidence in English and 90% wanted to return the following term. Around 50 volunteers contributed about 5,500 hours of support worth approximately £80,000. Voices in Exile is registered charity 1130363.

Key Metrics

1,009 clients supported in 2025 in total
178 people provided with housing support
c.10,000 meals provided to those in need

Key Outcomes

  • 167 people on Home Office resettlement programmes, including 12 new families, settled in Brighton & Hove
  • 95% of ESOL participants reported improved confidence in English
  • Volunteers contributed around 5,500 hours of support in 2025, worth approximately £80,000

Geography

South East

Impact Snapshot
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8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
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35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
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CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
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2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
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95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
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149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities