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Almost 4 million 7-24 year olds in England have a probable or possible mental health disorder.

There were 9,640 new emergency referrals to crisis care teams for 0-18 year olds, up 10% from last year.

A record-breaking 494,415 open referrals to children and young people's mental health services were made in December 2022.

Over half of the young people we surveyed said they'd experienced negative emotions which affect their everyday life.

43% of 11-25 year olds told us they have struggled to cope.

23% said negative emotions are still affecting their daily life.

Our Help Finder tool for young people had 267,777 views.

Over 2 million users visited our website.

Our information and support pages for young people were viewed over 2.5 million times.

74% of young people said our guidance helped them to feel more hopeful about their situation.

Our Instagram achieved 24 million impressions.

Our blog for young people was visited over 400,000 times.

Our Parents Helpline team answered 15,035 phone calls, webchat and emails.

89% of helpline users felt confident with the advice provided on the call.

Our new community support resources were viewed almost 70,000 times.

There were over 1.4 million page views of the parents' information and advice on our website.

We trained 3,377 people across all four nations through our in-house and open access training offer.

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

Our Youth Panel offered senior-level strategic input and advice through 92 activities.

We recruited 15 young people to have more direct input in our work through our new Youth Advisers programme.

We had 40 new young people join our Activist programme, our biggest ever recruitment.

Our #EndTheWait campaign supported over 14,000 young people to respond to the Government’s ‘call for evidence’.

Across all our youth programmes, 77% felt they made a positive contribution to young people’s mental health.

100% of young people across our programmes felt that making a contribution had a positive impact on themselves.

4,380 schools, companies and individuals took part in our #HelloYellow campaign.

Our Instagram content had 165,672 engagements.

The campaign raised over £300,000 to support young people's mental health.

Our total income was £6.4 million, a 30% decrease from 2021-22. We faced a challenging economy in a cost-of-living crisis.

Our total funds going into the next financial year amounted to £7.6 million.

Our investment income rose to £92,146 in bank interest in 2023, more than a 500% increase from the previous year.