Poverty & Inclusion Health & Wellbeing 2025
Foothold (IET Benevolent Fund)

Our Impact: Supporting Engineers in 2024–25

Foothold is the benevolent fund of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, supporting engineers and their families worldwide with financial, health and wellbeing assistance. In 2024–25 it delivered 1,257 instances of support to 1,226 people across 47 countries, paid £423,613 in grants to 122 people, and delivered 23,002 digital wellbeing sessions. It also launched a clinically validated Mental Health Check-In tool and expanded its advice service internationally.

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Financial grants for living costs (regular and one-off); My Money Checker financial advice letters; webinar programme on health, wellbeing and financial planning; Mental Health Check-In digital tool; Wellbeing Hub; Differently Wired Hub for neurodivergent engineers; volunteer befriending; advice and guidance service expanded to six countries outside the UK

📊Key Metrics

1,257 instances of support delivered to 1,226 people in 47 countries; total charitable expenditure £1.2 million Key Metric 1
£423,613 paid in financial grants to 122 people; 108 people received one or more grants covering living costs, mental health, disability and medical needs Key Metric 2
23,002 digital health and wellbeing sessions delivered; 2,245 sign-ups to online support hubs and webinars Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 41% of financial grants went to engineers under 35 and 44% supported people with a disability, demonstrating focus on younger and most vulnerable community members
  • Mental Health Check-In tool launched September 2024, used 325 times in its first year — demographic shifted from predominantly older males to 57% female and 68% aged 25 or under by year end
  • Webinar programme grew 15% year-on-year to 2,142 sign-ups in 2024–25, with the most popular session on estate planning attracting 325 attendees

📍Geography

International

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