The Franklin’s £50 challenge is about being entrepreneurial, challenging yourselves and getting out there for a good cause.
Each year, Franklin’s Solicitors provide corporate teams with a £50 seed fund to get creative with and transform into as much money as possible for a chosen charity. The next challenge will take place from February to May 2025 with networking events and PR opportunities in between.
Next year’s list of charities, which is split between those in Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire, includes Arthur Ellis Mental Health Foundation.
Jon Manning, founder of Arthur Ellis, said:
“Arthur Ellis is incredibly proud to be involved in such a great charity event, especially as one of our first fundraising events! I’m looking forward to the teams involved showing their teamwork, creativity and some healthy competitiveness through the challenge!”
Jon first found himself in a children’s mental health setting at the age of six following a year of childhood adversity. Good mental health has been a life-long goal for Jon, but when trying to access help, he was hit with long waiting lists, challenging processes and a lack of communication. Despite multiple attempts on his own life, trying to contact the people you’re told you ought to, and being put on an urgent care list in his early twenties, Jon still had to wait four years for support.
And he’s not alone. It is thought 1.4 million children have probable mental health conditions in the UK. Of those, 39% won’t receive support and the ones that do may face waiting lists up to 1,399 days.
Jon said:
“These are our future leaders, colleagues, teachers, nurses and politicians. We know that if mental health issues aren’t supported by the age of 14, that child is 50% likely to have a life-long condition.
“We have to shift our focus to a preventative one and rather than mental health awareness, we should be discussing mental health access.”
Arthur Ellis has run a one-to-one service with a focus on accessibility, communication and customer experience for the last four years. This service is accessible to over 250,000 people from the age of eight.
The aim is to create a service to support the 250,000 children who currently can’t access help at all. The charity has have delivered over 54,000 sessions across the community, supported over 10,000 children and most importantly, done it all without a waiting list.
The same surgery that referred Jon into a four-year waiting list now uses Arthur Ellis and its patients are seen within days.
By supporting Arthur Ellis in the Franklins £50 Challenge, or becoming a corporate partner, whether to improve colleague wellbeing or any other mental health initiative or issue, it will help transform the face of mental health for good.
To find out more or to discuss working with Arthur Ellis, visit www.arthurellismhs.com.
Find out more about the Franklins £50 Challenge at www.franklins-sols.co.uk/50-challenge
