Our Mission
Innox Foundation exists to improve the mental health of young adults across the UK.
We invest in extraordinary organisations who share our mission. We prioritise those that take early and preventative approaches and whose work enriches the voluntary sector.
Our multi-year, flexible funding enables our partners to grow their impact so that more young adults can enjoy sustained good mental health.
The Background
We decided right from the start to apply a laser focus to our giving so as to develop our understanding of and expertise in our chosen field, as well as to ensure that our resources work as hard as possible.
We chose to focus on young adult’s mental health. Like many, we have been shocked by the steep decline in mental wellbeing among our younger generations. Young adults – those aged 18 to 25 – face unique stresses by virtue of being both ‘young’ and ‘adult’. They continue to be affected by issues related to self-esteem, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, exams and relationships, while also facing additional pressures as they enter adulthood, such as leaving home to live independently, accessing housing, managing finances and finding employment.
Despite being among those most in need of our support, young adults can face a cliff edge of care. After turning 18, individuals can no longer access services earmarked for young people, while adult mental health services are often either not available or do not meet their circumstances, needs and interests. Furthermore, young adults can struggle to access support early as most mental health services focus on those in crisis rather than preventing issues from developing and escalating. These challenges are intensified for those living in poverty, leaving care or facing other social and economic disadvantage.
There is hope. The UK is home to some extraordinary non-profit organisations who have created and evidenced effective approaches to improving young adult’s mental health. We are proud that some of these have become our partners.
The need for effective understanding of what works to help this population is greater than ever.
About Us
We are a grant giving charity established in 2020. We believe in the power of collaboration to solve society’s biggest challenges and so decided to work towards our mission by partnering with others. We identify and fund high performing organisations who have the mental wellbeing of young adults at the heart of what they do.
We invest in organisations rather than fund projects. We take a relationship-based approach to grant making, placing considerable value on the partnerships that we hold with those that we fund. We offer our partners multi-year, unrestricted funding and aim to make their experience with us as positive as possible. We support our partners in ways that we hope put them in a better place to support young adults.
OUR TEAM
We are a small team, with a variety of work and life experience amassed between us. Our founders, Jacqui Edmiston and Andy Parsons, set up Innox Foundation as a charitable ‘vehicle’ for their family giving. Working alongside them are their son Daniel, who represents the younger generation of the family, and close family friend Tine Gregory, whose opinions and clear thinking we hold in great esteem. Our Foundation Director, Michael Fuller, has worked with us since 2020 and brings invaluable experience from his work across the non-profit sector over many years.
We all share a common desire to positively affect young adults’ mental health in whatever way we can – whether that is by supporting the work that others do or pioneering projects of our own in the future. We hope that our modest efforts can reap benefits that will improve the lives of a generation.
Our Work
We are a young foundation and are cautious in our approach, conscious that we are learning all the time. Proud to have partnered with some outstanding organisations, we are confident there will soon be more to follow. Below are some examples of the charities and other non-profit organisations that we have supported thus far:
Grants
We fund extraordinary organisations whose work improves the mental health of young adults. We do not run an open grant application process. Instead, we actively seek out organisations to support. However, if you meet our funding criteria and would like to tell us about your work, please complete our Contact Form.
OUR APPROACH
Who, what and how we fund is shaped by five guiding principles: