Tresacare: Our Top Highlights of 2025

As a small women-led team juggling different disabilities, chronic illnesses, family responsibilities, and projects, we don't often get a chance to sit down and reflect on the work we do at Tresacare. As winter slowly makes way for spring, we decided to write down our 2025 highlights at Tresacare to take stock of how we're doing.

2025 has been a year of measurable growth, national recognition, and direct impact on the lives of care workers across the UK. It's also the year we grew the most as a team! From policy tables to wellbeing circles, from national awards to grassroots support sessions, we have continued working towards a care system that values, protects, and uplifts the people who hold it together – while growing up our small social enterprise.

Here are the moments and milestones that defined our year:

Awards, Grants & Organisational Growth

2025 marked a breakthrough year for our credibility and capacity.

• 1st Prize – Micro Organisation Category awarded by Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) Alongside the award, we secured a consultancy programme focused on strengthening our data collection and impact measurement frameworks – ensuring our work is not only meaningful, but measurable.

• Selected to participate in the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) programme, strengthening our leadership, impact measurement, and business development strategy.

• Awarded a place on the Hatch Enterprise Hatch Programme, alongside a small grant to accelerate sustainable growth.

• Shortlisted for a £25,000 grant with Network for Social Change (NFSC) (currently under review).

  
  

Financially, 2025 showed clear upward momentum. We increased our financial performance compared to 2024 – a critical milestone for long-term sustainability.

Equally important: our team grew! For a social enterprise, capacity equals impact. We are delighted to have Ale, Vale, Clare, Prem and Mireille join Tresacare last year. Expanding the team has significantly strengthened our operational infrastructure, partnership management, delivery capability, and strategic development – positioning us for scale.

Launch of Our Free End-of-Life Care Training Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllLzI-yOfQ

In collaboration with Art of Living & Dying Well, we launched a six-part End-of-Life Care training series, freely accessible on YouTube. Led by end-of-life care expert Professor Julia Verne, the series combines clinical expertise with lived care worker experience.

Core message: Every individual is a person who matters – right up to the last moment of their life. By making this training freely available, we have:

• Increased access to specialist knowledge

• Reduced barriers to professional development

• Strengthened confidence in delivering dignified end-of-life care

This is preventative impact: reducing fear, uncertainty, and burnout in one of the most emotionally demanding areas of care.

National Roundtable on Displaced International Care Workers

Besides the grand highlight of getting to present our Six Urgent Asks policy paper to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting, we also convened 50 leaders, advocates, and care workers to address the urgent issue of displaced international care workers in the UK. The session centred lived experience, translating frontline realities into policy “asks” and collective action points.

Outcomes included:

• Strengthened cross-sector alliances

• Clearer reform recommendations

• Increased visibility of worker voice in policy discussions

One message resonated across the room: The system is broken – and we must fix it together.

In case you missed it, check out our Six Urgent Asks here.

Advocacy & Sector Leadership

Our CEO Liz represented care workers on national platforms, including speaking at Health Connect for the launch of OpenDoc – a free, expert-vetted policy platform.

She challenged the sector to rethink policy culture:

• Moving from punitive compliance

• Towards co-production with care workers

• Ensuring policies empower rather than silence

The response confirmed what we already knew: the sector is ready for change.

Strengthening Support for International Care Workers

Throughout 2025, we deepened partnerships with:

• Legal advisers

• Unions

• Advocacy groups

• Ethical recruitment platforms

As a result, displaced care workers have increased access to:

• Free legal advice

• Clear guidance on employment rights

• Ethical employment pathways

• Regional support networks

In a year marked by uncertainty, we prioritised practical, navigable solutions.

Championing Care Worker Wellbeing: Individual Lives Changed

Our viral LinkedIn post reached over 50K impressions and helped Mo find a new sponsor!

Impact is not only systemic – it is personal. Through our wellbeing sessions, peer-support spaces, and practical guidance, we are continuously humbled to hear how these sessions are making a lasting positive impact on many individual lives.

One displaced care worker shared:

“I was feeling very lonely, sad, depressed. I had no sponsorship. When I started coming to the wellbeing sessions, I found support in the community. It helped my mental health. I started feeling hopeful and energetic again.”

Through consistent encouragement around self-care and purpose, she began:

• Leaving the house regularly

• Volunteering

• Upskilling and strengthening her CV

• Preparing more confidently for interviews

She remains without sponsorship – but she is no longer without hope. Her reflection:

“I have gained a lot of positives. Sharing as a way to manage stress, encouragement to be strong and remain focused, unlocking skills within me, confidence in my work and interviews. Thank you so much, the sessions have been so helpful in all aspects.”

Another participant, Philip, shared:

“Everything that's been happening here has been inspiring and given me hope. Thank you.”

These stories matter. Because wellbeing is not a luxury intervention – it is a stabilising force that prevents long-term disengagement, isolation, and skill loss in the workforce. When care workers feel valued and supported:

• Burnout reduces

• Retention improves

• Confidence strengthens

• Quality of care rises

A sustainable care system begins with caring for the workforce itself.

Vision for 2026

Building on this year’s momentum, our priorities for 2026 are clear:

• Securing additional funding following our transition to CIC+

• Expanding business development with new and existing clients (already underway)

• Scaling our measurable impact frameworks

• Strengthening policy influence around displaced international care workers

2025 demonstrated both need and appetite for change. Across training rooms, roundtables, community sessions, and national forums, we have seen care workers and partners ready to build something better.

We are proud of what we have achieved. And even more committed to what comes next.

Thank you to every partner, advocate, and care worker who stood with us this year.

Together, we are building a care system that works – for everyone.