Our Work, Our Impact: Imkaan’s 2025 Year In Review
January 2025
As we settle into 2026, we are sharing Our Work, Our Impact: Imkaan’s 2025 Year In Review - a snapshot of what we and our members pushed forward across an intense year for the sector.
2025 was marked by political hostility, institutional failures, rising violence and chronic underfunding. We also witnessed the growing confidence of the far right and the way violence against women and girls (VAWG) is increasingly weaponised to fuel racist fear, division and violence. Black and minoritised women, specialist frontline staff and communities carried the weight of this often with little safety or acknowledgement.
And still: the ‘by and for’ Black and minoritised VAWG sector showed up; with care, courage and serious expertise.
This Year In Review is one way of putting that work on record.
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What’s inside
This report captures work across:
Parliamentary engagement and evidence submissions on VAWG funding, mental health, asylum accommodation safeguarding, community cohesion and more
Campaigns and public statements challenging structural failings, hostile environment harms, racism and disinformation
Member-led movement building and solidarity, including local mobilisation, convening and sector-wide collective action
Key programme work on housing and safety, including the launch of Pathways of Hope
How Imkaan is looking ahead in 2026, including priorities across research, policy and collective capacity
A note of thanks
Thank you to our members for everything you have carried, built and led — and to every survivor, partner, ally, funder, commissioner and colleague who stood alongside this work. This is not work we do alone. It is work we hold together.
Looking ahead
As we move through 2026, Imkaan will continue to strengthen collective power, deepen evidence, and insist that Black and minoritised women are not an afterthought in policy or funding; but central to any serious attempt to end VAWG.
📣 For media or partnership enquiries related to this report, please contact: kiesha@imkaan.org.uk