Our impact

2025: Our impact in numbers

• We published 16 reports and briefings covering a range of topics, including evaluations of innovative community-based approaches to mental distress and briefings on acute care and substance useWe published 16 reports and briefings covering a range of topics, including evaluations of innovative community-based approaches to mental distress and briefings on acute care and substance use

• We trained more than 900 people in IPS, and 500 in our flagship Doing what works course, helping to support up to 10,000 people with mental health or substance use problems into paid work at any one time

• We trained 94 people as part of our new course to support managers who are preparing to deliver IPS as part of the Connect to Work programme

• We supported 420 people representing 168 councils through our Mentally Healthier Councils network, championing good mental health in communities across the UK

• We supported and equipped more than 60 member organisations and partners of Equally Well UK to boost the physical health of people living with severe mental illness, and supported 10 young people involved in a lived experience advisory panel as part of a new project.

• We shared 44 blogs, exploring topics from the health toll of the Windrush scandal to, and providing a platform for people with lived experience and expertise to make their voices heard

• Almost 1100 people attended our events and roundtables covering topics including wealth inequalities and mental health, severe mental illness and the economic case for investment in mental health services. 

• 223 people attended our webinar on the prevention of mental ill health in children and young people

• We celebrated 15 years of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition. Hosted by Centre for Mental Health, this is a collaborative network of over 420 organisations, dedicated to advocating for and influencing policy in relation to the mental health needs of babies, children and young people. 

How we’ve been driving change in policy and practice

• We partnered with Speech and Language UK to highlight the mental health needs of children with speech and language difficulties

• We called for an end to the two-child limit to Universal Credit, which the Government has now accepted and will implement next year

• We campaigned for a modernised Mental Health Act and for improvements to the Bill as it went through Parliament

• We called for more and better mental health support in schools, and there is now a national plan to expand provision to all schools in England by 2029

• We welcomed the Government’s decision to reform youth justice provision for girls, following our research on the urgent need for change in the children and young people’s secure estate

• We spoke out about the risks of restricting people’s rights to disability benefits, following which the Government adapted its plans and is now reviewing evidence for what needs to change

• We hosted an event at the Labour Party Conference with our campaign partners Coalition for Children and Young people’s Mental Health, Young Minds, Centre for Young Lives and the Prudence Trust where we set out the case to reform the children and young people’s mental health system

• We supported the launches of the Black Mental Health Manifesto and the Motherhood Group’s Black maternal mental health report

• We supported the creation of a new Youth Strategy to improve young people’s life chances

• We set out the evidence of what works to improve children’s mental health and prevent mental health difficulties

• We gave evidence to the Health Select Committee’s major report on community mental health services.