The Eikon Charity

The Eikon Charity supports children and young people in Surrey to overcome difficulties, become resilient and develop into confident adults who contribute positively to their communities. Wherever a young person is on that journey and whether they’re feeling good about life or are really struggling, we’re there for them. We believe in their potential.

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Current Volunteering Opportunities

We have identified a range of volunteering opportunities for corporate teams and individuals.

These include:

Gardening

• Preparing and clearing the gardens - Weeding & deadheading, clearing pond etc

• Donate and plant up some solid planters and rocks to create a wildlife area, herb garden and rockery

Virtual Youth Club

• Run workshops or contribute to discussions around themes such as Interview skills, careers advice, wellbeing, keeping safe online

Schools

• Volunteer mentors to provide weekly one to one support to a young person and enter feedback via our database (1hr per week plus travel time)

• Run a series of targeted workshops (either online, after school or during school holiday) with perhaps six young people attending each one. Topics coudl include Wellbeing, Further education, Careers guidance, CV writing etc

• Corporate trips offering young people opportunities to see the working world

Visit our Corporate Volunteering page for regular updates - https://eikon.org.uk/get-involved/corporate-volunteering/

OR email fundraising@eikon.org.uk to find out more.

NEW Corporate support page on our website

The new Corporate support page on our website is designed to show companies large and small how we can partner with you to ensure your support is as beneficial to you and your employees as it is for the charity and our beneficiaries. Follow this link to find out more - https://eikon.org.uk/corporate-support/#benefits

Our corporate fundraising pack is packed full of ideas and resources to help make any fundraising activity a success. Request yours today - https://eikon.org.uk/corporate-support

Annual Review & Accounts

Our recently published annual review and accounts can be viewed here:

https://eikon.org.uk/about-us/annual-reports-and-financial-statements/

About us

The Eikon Charity supports young people in Surrey who are struggling with poor emotional wellbeing and mental health, giving them the skills to respond positively to life’s challenges and thrive. Our focus is on prevention or helping early on before a concern becomes a crisis. We believe that if we empower young people to have wellbeing and resilience and enable the adults around them to provide effective support, then they will thrive. With good mental health, children and young people do better in every way.

The young people who come to Eikon for support struggle with a whole range of complex issues. They may have experienced a loss in their family that they are struggling to make sense of. They may have been the victim of racist or homophobic abuse, they may be feeling anxious about how they look and feel unable to leave their room for days on end. Overwhelmed, with anxiety or depression some young people deliberately harm themselves, on occasion with fatal consequences.

The uncertainty created by global issues such as climate change and COVID-19 have added to the anxieties young people have to cope with.

Eikon supports young people in schools and communities across Surrey providing one to one and group support, to improve young people’s physical and emotional wellbeing and mental health. Our work incorporates catchment areas in the bottom 30% in England for access to housing and education and skills (Indices of Multiple Deprivation). They all serve significant populations of need (19% of attendees are eligible for pupil premium funding, national average 18%) and 5.4% of students do not have good English.

Currently Eikon supports over 4,000 children across six boroughs and our school wellbeing resources have been used in 89% of Surrey’s secondary schools.