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EY Foundation 2025-26 Impact Report: Powering young futures

The EY Foundation is an independent charity founded by EY in 2014 to give young people from low-income backgrounds employment and earnings potential equal to their peers. This report covers July 2025 to June 2026. Contact email is the general enquiries address from the report page; no named fundraiser was found. Source: EY Foundation 2025-26 Impact Report PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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Smart Futures, Your Future and Step into Business programmes; employability workshops; paid work experience and mentoring; the Beyond Horizons place-based pilot in Bradford; a Business Academy pilot (150 young people); the new Youth Voice Forum; the AI and Social Mobility Challenge Prize; and research and policy work with IFOW and Demos

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported 3,780 young people eligible for free school meals across programmes and workshops between July 2025 and June 2026
Key Metric 2 Engaged 299 employers, creating 3,294 volunteering opportunities
Key Metric 3 Delivered 43 high-impact programmes and 115 short-term interventions across 9 regions, and published 5 reports

Key Outcomes

  • Alumni in employment rose from 50% at their first survey response to 65% at their second (418 alumni responded at least twice); 39% were combining education and employment
  • Launched a first-of-its-kind UK AI and Social Mobility Challenge Prize, with 30+ organisations in the Discovery Phase
  • Launched the Youth Voice Forum with 10 young people to shape programmes, policy and decisions

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UK-Wide

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