Grant to The Eikon Charity (360G-CFSurrey-A780665)
Funding Organisation
£150,000
Recipient Organisation
Funding to support research, evaluation and advocacy for more investment in prevention work to improve mental health in young people.
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Grant Details
| Award Date | 2025-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Last Modified | 2025-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2028-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 35 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2025-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary issue | Mental health |
| Amount Awarded | 150000 |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2025/26 Nominated Grants |
| Grant Programme: Title | Donor Funds |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Amount Applied For | 0 |
| Primary age group | Young People (13 – 18) |
| Primary beneficiary | Children and Young People |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Woodham & Rowtown |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E05012900 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | WD |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | https://eikon.org.uk |
| Recipient Org: Description | Our vision, ‘Change for Children’, is that by 2028, Eikon will be a leader in transforming the wellbeing landscape for children and young people. We are achieving this by: - Committing to be there for children and young people when they need help, offering the right support at the right time (1:1 and group work), and making sure they know how to get more help if they need it. (2,537 in 2024-25). - Empowering children and young people and families to find the inner and access outer resources to stay resilient, safe and well. (For example, through provision of materials, webinars, school assemblies). (Around 18,000 in 2024-24) - Enabling adults (families, schools, and communities) to provide networks of support and care around children and young people. (1,988 in 2023-2024) Our mission is to empower and support children and young people in Surrey to have the wellbeing and resilience they need to stay safe and to thrive. We believe that if we build and highlight the evidence base as to: the causes of declining emotional wellbeing and mental health; the value of empowering and enabling, preventative approaches, children to thrive, and the merits of improving support systems for children and young people, together we can: -Influence systemic change and a shift in investment toward building and maintaining emotional wellbeing and mental health, preventing more children from needing to access specialist services and high-cost support. -Achieve improvements in the quality of those services and connectedness of support, when it is needed. We act early, before, or as soon as challenges emerge, to prevent them becoming more serious. Where early help has not been enough or an issue is more deeply embedded, we provide the right support for the child or young person and their family. Our work improves school attendance, behaviour and results, children, and young people become more confident and are able to tackle their challenges. We prevent unnecessary harm, and save lives. In 2023-4 96% of the children and young people we supported said Eikon gave them the support when they needed it, 97% said the support improved their situation and 99% would recommend Eikon to a friend. Eikon offers all young people, particularly those most at risk, a safe space to turn to in their school and local community through 1-to-1s, groups, clubs and online and working collaboratively with young people, families, caregivers, schools, communities, voluntary and community organisations, Surrey County Council, and health providers. We are a leading partner in delivery of the Mindworks Surrey service, commissioned by the NHS and delivered by a consortium of charities working in Surrey. Our ever-expanding range of services to includes: - Youth Support Practitioners, Early Intervention Co-ordinators and Volunteer Mentors who work with young people in primary and secondary schools, creating safe spaces for discussions about anxiety, identity, exam stress, friendships, confidence etc. - Smart Moves, helping teachers support year 6 and 7 pupils with their transition to secondary school. -Smart Schools, supporting schools to create and maintain a culture of positive mental health and wellbeing across eight key areas outlined by Public Health England. -Wellbeing Ambassadors, who amplify children’s voices, providing tools and a platform to promote wellbeing across their school. - Heads Up! an 8-week course to help young people understand their minds and bodies better. - High Five! our new programme for primary-age children to prevent their challenges from escalating and becoming deeply rooted. - Safer Streets, to keep young people in Addlestone safe and help them make positive choices. - Garden Clubs in our Fulbrook School Hopes & Dreams Garden. - Supporting parents/carers, through 1-to-1’s and group sessions, including webinars and a new parenting service in response to growing need. - High Hopes! residential weekend providing an intensive and transformative weekend for families of young carers and other groups, where young people and their parents gain essential resilience skills. - Providing volunteer mentors across seven schools to build confidence and help young people become more resilient and stay well. - Our summer transition programme supporting vulnerable children (plus parents/carers) at risk of dropout in the critical transition phase between primary and secondary school. - Mindworks Surrey Discovery Teams signposting young people to services, Community Wellbeing Practitioners, Emotional Wellbeing Practitioners and Counsellors supporting children, young people and their families facing challenges around mental health and emotional wellbeing. - Support for neurodivergent children, young people and their families including our Finding Balance programme, for under 12s and their families, bespoke parenting sessions and Making Links sessions for 11-year-olds. - Our growing iAmMe programme for LGBTQ+ young people who often need additional support as they explore their sexuality and gender. Our values are to: Elevate and amplify the voices of children & young people. The needs of young people guide everything we do, shaping every decision and action we take. Act with compassion. We empathise with the pressures of modern life and feel compelled to help without judgement. Take responsibility. We recognise our part to play in the future of children & young people, and we hold ourselves accountable for their success. Work together. Partnering with parents, carers, schools, policymakers, and young people themselves helps us all to succeed. We are witnessing a mental health crisis amongst children and young people. In 2023 a record 1 in 5 had a probable mental health disorder (a stark increase from 1 in 8 in 2017) and this is forecast to rise to 1 in 4 by 2030. The increasing demand for young people’s mental health services has put a huge pressure on statutory services. Without help, young people quickly become overwhelmed, anxious or depressed and struggle to achieve their full potential. Many deliberately harm themselves, sometimes, very sadly, with fatal consequences (suicide is the leading cause of death amongst 5–19-year-olds). Therefore, a key priority for us is to establish a new Evidence and Influence function to reverse the decline in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people by leading a fundamental shift towards preventative and early help services. |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1109190 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 05402398 |