Read our full Autumn 2025 Community Insights here.
Key insights:
- 1,340 local good causes across the UK and Ireland responded to our Autumn survey, helping us to understand more about their outlook, needs and challenges.
- Demand Increase: Nearly four-fifths (79%) of organisations reported that demand for their services has increased over the past 6 months. Specifically, 43% noted demand had ‘Increased a lot’.
- Cost of Living Crisis Impact: Organisations overwhelmingly anticipate severe effects this winter. A total of 90% expect the COL crisis to affect the people they support ‘Very significantly’ (56%) or ‘Quite significantly’ (34%).
- Capacity Shortfall: Despite high demand, two-fifths (40%) confirmed they are currently unable to help people requesting support due to limitations in capacity or funding. 2025 Community Survey
- Primary Focus Area: The dominant focus across the network is addressing basic needs, with food poverty / food bank / community meals listed as the main focus area for 36% of all responding organisations.
- Reach: The survey respondents collectively support a total number of over 509,000 people directly per week, with an average of 380 people supported per organisation, per week.