The impact your support has made this year...
We would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported our work throughout 2025. Your generosity has helped us make a real impact, making this our busiest and most successful year yet as we’ve reached even more people in need of dental care.
As a volunteer-led charity, we’re proud of our dedicated teams who have worked tirelessly to provide essential dental treatment and oral health education for vulnerable groups across the UK. This year our reach has grown to include new areas and communities, ensuring that no one is left behind when it comes to accessing dental care.
Together with our partners and supporters, we’ve been able to bring vital dental care directly to those who need it most. Every appointment helps to ease pain, treat infection and restore confidence – enabling people to live without the burden of toothache and to smile again with dignity.
So far in 2025 we have...
Our impact in the UK
This year we expanded our work helping vulnerable women gain access to dental care, including survivors of domestic abuse, females facing exploitation or modern slavery and women working in the sex industry.
By strengthening links with charities that offer secure and supportive environments in which patients feel safe, volunteer teams were able to build trust and treat dental issues that often resulted from highly traumatic times in patients’ lives.
This work continues alongside ongoing efforts to treat thousands of people facing homelessness, families experiencing poverty, fishing communities, Traveller, Roma and Gypsy communities, refugees and those seeking asylum, people overcoming addiction and other vulnerable members of our communities.
We expanded our services to cover areas in Cornwall, South Wales, Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, County Durham and Tyne and Wear for the first time, while also re-engaging with partner charities in London, Sussex and Dorset.
We also launched a dedicated northern hub, achieving a key goal of bringing care to under-served communities in northern England. Funded with the support of The Bupa Foundation, the northern hub includes a dedicated vehicle and clinical team, allowing the charity to reduce the financial and environmental impact of sending teams from its base in Hampshire to locations much further north.
Two major projects delivered by the northern hub team are a new partnership with Wirral Council delivering care for under-served families supported by family hubs and regular clinics for people overcoming addiction and substance misuse in partnership with the charity Waythrough.
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Our impact overseas
We have a continued goal of supporting people overseas where access to dentistry is minimal and many people face long-term challenges with their oral health.
This year, volunteer teams took part in six visits to Uganda, Cambodia and Malawi where they supported thousands of people in need of dental care in rural villages, schools, churches, prisons and orphanages.
Alongside this, we supported local dental project partners in Uganda by donating refurbished equipment and transportable dental chairs to projects that support patients in rural communities, who cannot access care easily.
In 2025 we taught ... BRIGHTBITES
Our BrightBites Impact
Our mission to help young people learn more about their oral health hit a signficiant milestone in 2025.
The BrightBites oral health education campaign, supported by Denplan, has now reached more than 160,000 children since its launch.
We're aiming to teach half a million primary school and nursery-age children about the importance of healthy and happy smiles by 2028 by going into classrooms, nurseries and other educational settings with our interactive and educational sessions.
