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Over 3.5 million 6-23 year olds in England have a probable or possible mental health disorder.

1,067,849 aged 18 or under were in contact with mental health services.

4,166 aged 18 or under of those in contact with mental health services were admitted to a mental health hospital.

Nearly half of the young people we surveyed had experienced negative emotions which affect their everyday life.

40% of all 11-25s told us they have struggled to cope.

Just under a quarter of those surveyed said negative emotions are affecting their daily life.

Our Help Finder tool had 159,266 page views in the eight months since its launch.

Having peaked during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, UK website users decreased by 10% from 4,901,252 to 4,393,051.

Our young people's support pages were viewed over 2.7 million times.

Our young person blogs were visited over 800,000 times.

An average of 75% of young people told us they felt more hopeful about their mental health after accessing our information.

74% of young people said they learnt something new to help them cope with their mental health.

Our Parents Helpline team answered 14,047 phone calls, web chats and emails.

82% of parents and carers said they felt more confident after contacting the Parents Helpline.

Our 360° Schools Community grew to over 21,000 members

There were almost 2.3 million page views of the parents’ information and advice on our website, a 64% increase on the previous year.

We trained a further 2,185 people, including school staff and community workers, through our in-house training offer.

97% said that attending the training course would positively impact their practice.

Our Youth Panel offered senior-level strategic input and advice through over 70 different activities.

54 young people shared their lived experience and campaigned with us through our Activist programme, taking part 277 times in 57 activities.

We secured 5,953 pieces of media coverage, with 13 young people giving interviews in high profile media outlets a total of 17 times.

Our #FundTheHubs social media content achieved over 6 million impressions and 300,000 engagements.

We successfully encouraged 14,562 people to write to their MP about our #FundTheHubs campaign.

14,215 young people told us their views for our Big Young People’s Survey.

1 in 4 schools across the country took part in #HelloYellow to raise money for young people’s mental health.

Our Instagram posts on the day had 475,696 impressions, with 23,408 people engaging with the campaign.

This year saw our most successful #HelloYellow campaign ever, raising over £550k.

Our income was £9.2 million, a 6% decrease from 2020-21. However, last year was a record income level, heavily affected by Covid-19 emergency grants.

Our total expenditure was £6.5 million.

For every £1 we spent on fundraising in 2021-22, we raised £5.80.