Turn2us annual impact 2025-2026

The past year has been full of change. Nationally, we've had big policy shifts and a new prime minister. Globally, wars are causing a huge impact on people, affecting everything from the price of fuel to your pint of milk and your loaf of bread. Closer to home, Turn2us has had new board members and staff joining.

In the midst of this, our support for people experiencing financial insecurity is ever needed, whilst access to funding remains stagnant. This makes it incumbent on us to be good at what we do and to be intelligent about how we do it, so that we spend our money wisely, we target it to places that are going to make a difference to people's lives and communities, and that we do it in a way that's participatory and collaborative.

Looking ahead, poverty is not going away anytime soon. All the signs are that conflict around the world is not going to stop. So that will mean that people will have a tougher time going forward. 

In partnership with others, we're steering the limited resources we have to stop people getting into poverty. And we continue to spotlight the issues that we see, so that we can hold policy makers, politicians and government to account on the unacceptable levels of poverty in this country.

Our job is to continue to give people a louder voice through our co-production strategies and continue to speak where others can't speak. And if we can carry on doing that, then we are fulfilling our mission.

I would like finish with saying thank you to funders, to my colleagues on the board, to the staff, to our co-production partners, our key stakeholders. We have a strong board, with great skills and a lot of diversity of thought. And we have a senior team led by Tom that is excellent at what it does, so I am confident we have the skillset to deliver our ambitious strategy.

Arvinda Gohil,
Chair, Turn2us.