We grew our range of online support for the whole engineering community to include: Monthly webinars Wellbeing hub Mental Health Check-In tool Differently Wired Hub for neurodivergent engineers Legal factsheets and advice InBest benefits calculator
In 2025, we celebrated 125 years since that first grant was made to Charles Capito in 1900. Here’s to many more years of supporting engineers and their families.
In 2022 we launched our new five-year strategy to 2027, with three objectives: Enable our community to participate in a socially inclusive lifestyle. Empower our community to increase their resilience to life’s challenges. Sustain support for and from our community.
When we launched our three-year strategy in 2019, we set out to provide joined-up, accessible and personalised support, build resilience in our engineering community, and develop our supporter base. Here’s how we did: £5.4m spent for the community 41,000 services delivered 2,213 people supported 60 countries reached
We celebrated 130 years of supporting IET members and their families.
In 2019, the charity welcomed Jane Petit as the new CEO. We embarked on a research project to find out how we could do more, informing our three-year strategy. Findings showed that the name ‘IET Connect’ didn’t resonate with our community and the term ‘benevolent fund’ wasn’t familiar. So, we rebranded to Foothold and began…
In 2013, the charity moved locations to High Holborn. More staff were hired to cover its growing roles and responsibilities.
In 2010, Speirs House was sold and the proceeds used to create the Speirs Fund, which still supports engineers with care and respite needs today.
We introduced an employment support programme, including one-to-one sessions with a career consultant, to help members who had been made redundant to get back into work. The programme saw immense success, supporting over 100 people in 12 months.