LionHeart

11/10/2026

Today's the day this fabulous lot take on the Royal Parks Half for LionHeart! Thank you so much to Theo Till, Julius Carter, Grace Conisbee, Joe White and Annabel Huffer - wishing you a great day🙌
We've been following their training progress so eagerly that the boss even popped out to do a recce of the route on his lunch break the other day!

Collectively our fabulous five have raised over £3,000 to keep us helping their fellow surveyors. You can still add to that and drop a few words of encouragement on their Just Giving page here: https://www.justgiving.com/team/lionheartroyalparks2026

10/10/2026

10/10/2026

The theme of today's World Mental Health Day - real voices, real change - really strikes a chord. Today we share another lived experience of one of our amazing ambassadors, who volunteer with us to help make positive changes for their fellow surveyors and the profession as a whole.

Everyone struggles from time to time. As Kim Lydon FRICS says in this video, telling someone is the first step to getting support. The team at LionHeart are here if you need it.

09/10/2026

We all know conversations about mental health can make a difference. They can help people who might be struggling in silence realise they can get support, and better understanding can also help us to be kinder to each other (and ourselves).

One of the main aims of LionHeart’s early mental health ambassador programme was to create more openness around the subject and we're so grateful to all those who have helped us to do this over the years – hopefully contributing to change in attitudes and understanding within the surveying profession.

As the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is ‘lived experiences heard: real voices, real change’, we asked some of our ambassadors what the impact of sharing their own personal experiences had been, for themselves and others.

Read in full here: https://www.lionheart.org.uk/news/world-mental-health-day-real-voices-real-change

08/10/2026

During 2025/26, almost a fifth of people who called the LionHeart helpline did so due to poor mental health, including stress. 1 in 10 were specifically seeking counselling to help them. On average, our wonderful support officers spoke to 2 to 3 people every single month who admitted they had felt so desperate they had even thought of su***de.

Helping people through these most difficult of times is at the heart of what LionHeart is all about. As we approach World Mental Health Day on October 10th, there's no better time to remind you that we're here to provide confidential, professional support for the RICS community.

Find out more here https://www.lionheart.org.uk/mental-ill-health or call the team now on 0800 009 2960.

06/10/2026

We were so pleased to be invited along to the Sava Residential Surveying Expo in Coventry today - so many great conversations with so many surveyors and surveyors-in-waiting!

We look forward to following up in some cases with support for their next steps or APC journeys. It was also great to catch up with some of our friends and long-time supporters among the exhibitors and speakers in attendance.

Thanks as ever, Sava School of Surveying! Until next year...?! 🧡

05/10/2026

We've had an increase recently in contact from APC candidates who have been placed at risk of redundancy in the run-up to their final assessments. At what can already be a fraught and stressful time, some of them face sitting their final panels full of uncertainty around their job security and financial commitments.

Support officer Tracy Evans said: "It's a double whammy of anxiety at a crucial time in someone's career. We're offering ongoing support to a number whose jobs are at risk, and can offer legal advice referrals if necessary, and potentially back to work support further down the line. We would urge anyone affected in a similar way to get in touch so we can support them too."

To chat in confidence with one of our support team, call free on 0800 009 2960 or email [email protected]

01/10/2026

Did you know that today is Gift Aid Awareness Day? Every year, gift aid adds tens of thousands of pounds to the value of your donations to LionHeart, which helps us make a huge difference (even though it doesn't cost you an extra penny!)

How does it work? If you're a UK tax payer, every £10 you donate could be worth £12.50 to us with Gift Aid, as it allows us to recover the tax paid on your donations. It doesn't cost you any more - but all those extra few pounds add up so we can help even more people through bereavement, ill health, financial crisis and other challenges.

If you've previously made a donation to LionHeart and didn't tick the Gift Aid declaration at the time, don't worry! There's a simple, super quick form you can fill in to boost the value of any future donations as well as those you've made in the past four years! You can find it on our website here: https://www.lionheart.org.uk/giftaid

Thank you so much for helping us to support your fellow surveyors 🙏

30/09/2026

A leading researcher has identified what he calls the 3 degrees to burnout - but what are they, and how can LionHeart help?

Our support officer Jonas Rodin shares his experiences of helping surveyors, in particular the high-performers whose instinct was to keep "pushing through" - sometimes to the detriment of their mental health. Read the article, and how we can help, here: https://www.lionheart.org.uk/news/the-3-degrees-to-burnout-and-how-to-avoid-them