1. Session 4: Support Network OPEN SESSION Discover more about how the IMechE benevolent fund works and the difference that we make to members. We will cover our volunteering roles, and invite you to provide feedback on how we could shape and develop future services, particularly re working with your employers, and international members. We look forward to meeting you.

3. WHO WE ARE and WHAT WE DO 3 staff & 70 volunteers (all IMechE members) Relief and prevention poverty Promotion of wellbeing We listen to problems We give advice We help people get jobs We give people money We keep people connected

4. STUDY EMPLOYMENT END OF WORKING LIFE LIVING IN OLDER LIFE LIVING IN VERY OLD LIFE CARING FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN OLDER & VERY OLD LIFE IMECHE MEMBER + PARTNER DEPENDANTS + (FORMER 5 year paying duration) OWN & FAMILY ILLNESS and/or DISABILITY FAMILY TRANSITION and /or TROUBLES LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY...INTERNATIONAL...

5. Current services EMPLOYMENT coaching /CV clinics / back to work ADVICE re general, legal, debt, budgeting issues NEW PARENT SUPPORT, Pre-school / New dads SPECIALIST HELP: autism, dyslexia, dementia, care PRACTICAL Breathing space grants: e.g. 3-12 months Secured loans: interest free for homeowners Undergraduate grants: c.£1050 per academic year Apprenticeship grants: c.£500-£1050 per annum FINANCIAL Befriending: to combat isolation and loneliness Counselling: telephone based; grants for 1:1 Depression: (including post-natal depression) EMOTIONAL

6. How do we use volunteers? TRUSTEE BEFRIENDER VISITOR

7. How could we shape future services? INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYERS YOUNG MEMBERS DIVISIONS & GROUPS FAMILY MEMBERS

8. So, can we help with this...? 1.Mechanical engineer being made redundant. 2.Undergraduate without money. 3.Member cannot pay IMechE subscription fee. 4.Member’s ex-partner depressed after divorce. 5.Disabled child needs adapted equipment. 6.Council will not pay care costs for parents. 7.Widow cannot afford to heat and eat. 8.A large lump sum is required. 9.If based outside UK.