PwC’s Charities Impact Accelerator Programme

What we did

The Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Charities Impact Accelerator Programme is a first-of-its-kind pilot initiative in Jersey, commissioned by the Jersey Community Foundation and delivered by the PwC Channel Islands Sustainability & Economics Advisory team between July and December 2025.

The Programme brought together 14 local health, social care and wellbeing charities to quantify their collective value to society, develop a shared strategic vision, and identify opportunities for collaboration and fundraising. The Programme addressed a clear Jersey need: although charities play a vital role in island life, many can find it difficult to express their impact in sufficiently tangible terms to support fundraising and inform policy discussions. By helping the sector develop a more unified narrative, produce evidence-based impact valuations and strengthen collaboration, our work accelerated mobilisation of capital for the sector’s charities, and demonstrated how these charities support measurable social outcomes for Jersey in monetary terms.

Each charity received its own output report, whilst a Programme-wide set of findings were published by the Jersey Community Foundation in March 2026, available on their website.

Overview of results

Our analysis estimated that, in 2024, based on £35.4m expenditure, and applying internationally recognised methodologies, the participating charities in this sector collectively contributed to Jersey:

• Total impact value of £137.4 million
• Economic value of £62.2 million (including staff remuneration, market value of volunteering, other monetary and savings contribution)
• Social value of £89.1 million (including the value of improvement in health outcomes and savings to public expenditure).
• Quality of life and wellbeing improvements (as a component of social value) of £70.9 million
• Gross savings of £17.8 million and net savings of £6.2 million to public expenditure (accounting for government contract funding provided to charities)

Analysis also sets out how charity interventions during 2024 contributed to an estimated 8% reduction in hospital bed days, a 14% reduction in emergency visits and a 3.5% reduction in ambulance callouts across Jersey.

More broadly, the programme equipped charities with stronger impact data and a clearer language for engaging with philanthropy, government and other funders in support of SDG-aligned outcomes. 80% of participating charities reported changes in how they position the value of their work in fundraising communications and proposals, with successful results.

The findings demonstrated the charities are uniquely positioned to deliver early interventions and preventative care, reduce system pressures and support wellbeing across the island. However, to do so requires longer-term funding models, investment in technology and infrastructure, island-wide collaboration.

The report has already had a large influence on the future of the sector through informing the Health and Care Jersey Partnership Board, strengthening the sector’s collective voice in the run-up to recent island elections, and supporting the need to for the island to prioritise preventative health interventions.

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