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Jon Egging Trust Impact Report and Financial Statements 2025

The Jon Egging Trust runs the Blue Skies programme, using STEM experiences and aviation-inspired activities to support young people aged 12-15 who face significant barriers to learning. Their 2025 annual report records 5,426 young people engaged, with 82% improving academic engagement and 64% showing improvement across all social and emotional development measures after completing the full three-year programme.

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Blue Skies three-year programme, STEM workplace visits, in-school youth worker sessions, employer engagement, space camp, military partnership activities Custom geography from upload: England & Wales

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 5,426 young people engaged; 725 on the three-year Blue Skies programme across 526 sessions
Key Metric 2 82% of Blue Skies students improved academic engagement; 77% improved academic attainment
Key Metric 3 74% of young people on Blue Skies receive free school meals; 42% have special educational needs

Key Outcomes

  • 64% of students completing the three-year Blue Skies programme improved across all measured areas of social and emotional development
  • 75% of students assessed as having poor behaviour improved through the programme
  • Works in UK's most deprived areas; 100+ hours of face-to-face guidance per student cohort across three years

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440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
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140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
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373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
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45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
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95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
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91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
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Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
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Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
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851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
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27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
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94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni