2026 LionHeart Impact Report published

The latest LionHeart Impact Report has been published, showing the difference we’ve made to surveyors and their families over the last year – thanks to the ongoing support of the wider surveying community.

The 2026 Impact Report shows how we continue to reach RICS professionals of all ages and membership grades, all over the world.

In 2025/26, LionHeart:

• Approved grants of almost £380,000, supporting 180 surveyors and their family members in crisis
• Delivered 1,350 hours of professional counselling, and thousands more hours of advice, guidance and emotional support
• Supported an average caseload of 167 people on any given day

Almost a fifth of people called the LionHeart helpline due to poor mental health, including stress, with 1 in 10 specifically seeking counselling. 2 to 3 people a month were so desperate they had expressed thoughts of suicide.

Some 15% wanted support with work-related problems, such as unemployment, redundancy, business or regulatory difficulties.

And 1 in 4 needed support with the APC process – including those suffering from stress or burnout, and an increasing number of neurodivergent people or those with long-term health conditions.

LionHeart CEO Phil Sparke said: “Our support services team sometimes describe their work as walking alongside somebody during their moment of need. Sometimes the path will be short and there is an obvious way to go; others will be longer journeys with twists and turns. Whatever the circumstance, it is our privilege to walk a mile or two alongside; offering support, counsel, a listening ear and somewhere to turn, sometimes when that person is at rock bottom.”

Philippa Sampson-Bancroft FRICS, chair of the LionHeart board, added: “I’d like to extend a very big thank you to the many thousands of individual surveyors who have donated and fundraised to keep enabling this work to happen.  As I write, there are people in training for marathons and Three Peaks Challenges, and surveyors of all ages and disciplines gearing up for a virtual summer walking challenge - thanks again this year to organisers SDL Surveying and in particular Adrian Drummond, who has successfully fundraised for LionHeart over a number of years, always bringing humour to his commitment to the cause.

“It seems to me that support like this is the very essence of LionHeart; a charity for the profession, by the profession.”

Read the full report here 

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We were established with a donation from a chartered surveyor in 1899 and it is the support of subsequent generations of surveyors that has kept LionHeart here ever since.

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