Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2026
YoungMinds

YoungMinds Impact Report 2025

YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity fighting for young people's mental health, working to ensure no young person feels alone with their mental health and that help reaches people before crisis point. Its 2025 impact report covers three strategic programmes: Never Alone (reaching 1.1 million young people with mental health guides), Someone To Turn To (supporting 12,000 parents via its Helpline and training 4,287 trusted adults), and Powerful Young Voices (securing £5 million for 24 early support hubs through advocacy). Total fundraising income was £7.55 million, including £2.7 million from its M&S partnership. The year also saw a strengthened AJEDI commitment, with content from 21 Black, Muslim and Queer Disabled contributors.

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Never Alone (direct digital support for young people including mental health guides, help finder tool, blogs and paid media reaching nearly 2 million people); Someone To Turn To (Parents and Carers Helpline, professional training in youth mental health, parent/carer online advice); Powerful Young Voices (youth-led campaigns including A Million Pressures and Future Minds gathering 12,000 signatures; advocacy for early mental health support hubs); AJEDI programme with culturally relevant content from 21 Black, Muslim and Queer Disabled contributors

📊Key Metrics

1.1 million young people accessed practical mental health guides; parents and carers viewed online advice 1.7 million times; 12,000 adults received direct support through the Parents and Carers Helpline Key Metric 1
4,287 trusted adults trained across 125 courses; 93% said they felt more confident to support young people; 'Fund the Hubs' campaign helped secure £5 million for a pilot of 24 early mental health support hubs Key Metric 2
£7,547,199 raised from fundraising activities; Hello Yellow 2024 mobilised 8,300+ supporters and 6,956 schools; M&S partnership raised £2.7 million Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Help finder tool for young people viewed over 100,000 times; help finder for parents and carers accessed by over 40,000 people; parent and carer blog viewed over 80,000 times; 65 new blogs written by and for young people
  • Fund the Hubs campaign secured £5 million for 24 early support hub pilot — direct policy win from youth-led advocacy; AJEDI commitment embedded across the organisation to tackle inequalities in access and experience
  • Web guides viewed over 1 million times; paid campaign drove 111,907 visits to support content; report covers a year of significant organisational change yet saw increased reach across all programmes

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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