Sharing thoughts and eureka moments
18 December, 2020
Our Trust Funding Director Colin Kinloch shares how, in a year like no other, we've ensured that we do as much as we can to look after those that have made it their work to look after us.
15 December, 2020
Our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, shares why we've launched Impact on Urban Health to showcase the work of our urban health programmes.
19 November, 2020
In this guest blog we meet Elaine Brown, a member of the community research team we are working with as part of our collaboration with The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP).
16 November, 2020
Stephen Bediako, from The Social Innovation Partnership, shares the approach to our new project to distribute emergency funding to support organisations in our place through the pandemic.
12 November, 2020
Our Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, shares how the government's winter package takes steps to temporarily mitigate - but far from solves - the underlying inequities around children’s diet and health.
15 October, 2020
Sharon Bligh, Healthier Lives Director at The Consumer Goods Forum, shares lessons learnt from our collaboration to test in-store health initiatives.
02 October, 2020
Our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, shares with Charity Finance the lessons we've learned from tackling health inequalities.
29 September, 2020
Exploring the research behind the new app SMASH, which aims to nudge young people to select healthier options when in those outlets.
28 September, 2020
Our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, shares how invested in a new app, SMASH, to support more systemic change and reduce youth obesity.
20 August, 2020
Our Portfolio Manager, Rohan Martyres, shares how we're working on a scheme to financially protect those on low-incomes.
30 July, 2020
Our Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, explains our role in the new National Food Strategy.
27 July, 2020
Chief Executive Kieron Boyle shares what we've learnt from COVID-19 and why we need a collective response to urban health.
30 June, 2020
Our Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, shares how we’re collaborating with the commercial sector to tackle the inequality that prevents children from accessing nutritious food.
02 June, 2020
Kate Langford, our Programme Director, shares how we're learning from, and adapting to, COVID-19 to find ways to build back cleaner air.
01 June, 2020
Colin Kinloch, our Trust Funding Director, shares how we've been working closely with the Trust during COVID-19 to find and develop projects focused on improving staff wellbeing and increasing support to patients.
06 May, 2020
Our Programme Director for multiple long-term conditions, Barbara Reichwein, shares how we're acting on health inequalities in response to COVID-19.
30 April, 2020
Our childhood obesity Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, explains how we're working to improve children's health in the pandemic.
23 April, 2020
As a funder, our priority is to support our partners and the communities most affected by COVID-19. Our Portfolio Director, Louise Mousseau, sets out the actions we've taken to date and how we're adapting our work in response to a changing environment.
30 March, 2020
Chief Executive Kieron Boyle shares the work we're doing now to support frontline workers and essential services, as well as longer-term planning we're undertaking.
12 March, 2020
How can we protect children’s health from air pollution? Larissa Lockwood from Global Action Plan shares the simple steps we can all take to help our families avoid toxic air and cut down on the pollution we emit.
12 March, 2020
Is solving ai pollution within our reach? Dr Frank Kelly from King's College London shares how there’s a gap to be filled on testing interventions that both assess improvements to air quality and its impact on health.
12 March, 2020
How does toxic air worsen the health of people with heart conditions? Jacob West from the British Heart Foundation shares how the time is now to clean up our dirty air and what we can all do to demand change for clean air.
11 March, 2020
We know that tackling the health effects of air pollution won't be easy. Our Programme Director, Kate Langford, shares the key lessons guiding our approach to our urban health programme.
27 February, 2020
Ten years after the Marmot Review, our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, looks back and explores why health inequalities have not changed.
25 February, 2020
Our Programme Director for multiple long-term conditions, Barbara Reichwein, reflects on persisting health inequalities ten years on from the Marmot Review.
20 February, 2020
Our Portfolio Manager, Jessica Attard, shares what we're learning about what changes are possible to make convenience stores healthier.
12 February, 2020
What helps us live longer and healthier? Following the release of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Longevity's new strategy, Barbara Reichwein shares how we need to focus further upstream from healthcare into the systems that drive underlying health inequalities for people to live healthy lives for as long as possible.
09 February, 2020
How can we, and do we, use our endowment to have the greatest possible positive health impact? Our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, share how impact investing adds another means of extending our impact beyond grant-making alone.
13 January, 2020
Anthony Lobo from Southwark Council shares how we're working together to use the Mayor’s Healthier Catering Commitment framework to drive local improvements to fast food locally.
10 January, 2020
How does urban street design shape the way young people experience food in Southwark? Sophia Schuff from urban design planners, Gehl, shares how we got under the skin of young people’s daily habits to understand how the built environment could improve childhood obesity.
13 December, 2019
Our Portfolio Manager, Jessica Attard, shares what we’re learning from our collaboration with The Consumer Goods Forum and about how to positively change food environments to tackle childhood obesity.
13 December, 2019
As the decade draws to a close our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, reflects on what’s changed at the Charity over the past ten years, and what that might mean for the next ten.
13 December, 2019
As we look back at 2019 our Trust Funding Director, Colin Kinloch, shares what he's most proud of and how we have continued to support the best clinical experience for patients and the staff treating them.
31 October, 2019
Sarah Hickey, Programme Director of our childhood obesity programme, explores recent developments in UK health policies, and how the evidence we've gathered has informed wider scale action.
04 October, 2019
Alongside Demos, we explored the connection between people's personal finances and poor health, and identified four key ways to better design financial interventions to help people with multiple long-term conditions.
04 October, 2019
Our Policy and Partnerships Manager, Rowena Estwick, shares how we're working to understand the opportunities and barriers to equitable health in urban areas, comparing our boroughs to neighbourhoods elsewhere in the world.
30 September, 2019
Our Portfolio Managers, Rohan Martyres and Matt Towner, explore the social risk factors strand of our programme on multiple long-term conditions, and how we plan to support improvements to wider social aspects of how people live, work and age.
30 September, 2019
Our Portfolio Manager, Carole Coulon, reflects on the homes strand of our childhood obesity programme, the challenges we've faced, and how we're testing projects with partners to improve children's health in homes and early years settings.
30 September, 2019
Our Portfolio Manager, Rebecca Sunter, delves into the work we're doing with schools to reduce childhood obesity, what we've learned, and what it'll take to make impactful change throughout school environments.
30 September, 2019
Our Portfolio Manager, Jessica Attard, explores what we've learned so far through the streets strand of our childhood obesity programme, how we're working across sectors to address our obesogenic streets, and what our next steps are.