Supporting over a quarter of a million people: our impact in 2024-25

26 January
Colourful image of people gathered together. Some are sitting and talking, others are on devices, and others are climbing stairs and ladders to show progress.

Between September 2024 to August 2025, we helped over 270,000 people to access and stay in good work

Read our impact report.  

Our highlights in numbers 

 
  • 49,179 people joined our employment, health and wellbeing programmes.
    – 59% of  our  Individual  Placement  Support  (IPS)  participants  who  started  employment  were  still  working  six  months  later.
    – 81% of  people  on  our  social  prescribing  programmes, including WorkWell, improved  their wellbeing. 
  • 103,861 people learned new skills and progressed in their career journeys. 
    – 25% of the participants on our National Career Service found new jobs*.  
  • 22,955 NEET young  people  were coached and mentored; 42% moved into  education, training  or  work. 
  • 61% of eligible young people  in  our  children’s  homes  sat  their  Maths  and  English  GCSEs. 
  • 3,554 people in our justice programmes received skills, education and employment opportunities to break the cycle of reoffending 
  •  1,009 people volunteered in our charity shops, helping strengthen local communities. 

Innovation in how we delivered the change 

 

To deliver these outcomes, we partnered with 127 commissioners and thousands of employers. As the government looks for new ways to support people’s health and work challenges, we’re at the forefront of innovation, including: 

  • MSK Trailblazer: A partnership with West London Alliance (WLA), which tackles economic activity linked to physical health by combining work coaching with physiotherapy. 1,286 people started the programme within 8 months, exceeding our target and showing the demand for our services. 
  • Connect to Work: With WLA, we were the first to launch the Connect to Work programme, a core part of Government’s Get Britain Working initiative. At the time of writing, this has grown to six Connect to Work contracts across the country. We’re the largest provider of Individual Placement Support (IPS) after the NHS and shared our learnings in our IPS impact report.  
  • Local investment: We flowed nearly £10m into local organisations through 46 voluntary sector partnerships. This strengthens local systems and ensures a community-led approach.  
  • Youth unemployment: We launched our Not Generation campaign, a call-to-arms for employers, decision makers and the public to back the potential of this generation. And we’re investing £2m in youth pilot projects 
  • Impact investing in good technology: We invested in Resolution Foundation’s Worker Tech Fund, supporting start-ups using innovation and technology to make work fairer, more secure and inclusive.  

Looking to the future 

 

We’re continuing to advocate for change, sharing insights from our innovation projects with the government, businesses and partners to build on what works. Our focus is how to integrate health, work and wellbeing initiatives so that people get the right support faster and taxpayers’ money is maximised.  

Find out how we’re making real change, and how you can help, on our Foundation page

Read our impact report to find out more. 

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