Blogs
Sharing thoughts and eureka moments
Reflecting on our work, what we’re learning and the latest about the health challenges we focus on
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Life always has stories: a guest blog from community researcher Elaine
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).
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Collective responses to emergency COVID funding
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.
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The Government’s winter package takes some steps to tackling inequities around children's diets
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.
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Is it working? A closer look at our Collaboration for Healthier Lives UK Initiative in Lambeth and Southwark
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.
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Lessons learned from tackling health inequalities
02 October, 2020
Our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, shares with Charity Finance the lessons we've learned from tackling health inequalities.
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SMASH app user research: Young people’s responses to the opportunity for healthier food on the go
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.
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Impact investing for social change with the new SMASH app
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.
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How a COVID-19 financial shield can protect the health of those on low-incomes
20 August, 2020
Our Portfolio Manager, Rohan Martyres, shares how we're working on a scheme to financially protect those on low-incomes.
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Our part to play in the new National Food Strategy
30 July, 2020
Our Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, explains our role in the new National Food Strategy.
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The collective responsibility for urban health
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.
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How we’re collaborating with the commercial sector for big changes to children’s 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.
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Learning from COVID-19 to find ways to build back cleaner air
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.
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Supporting the staff and patients of our Trust during COVID-19
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.
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How we are acting on health inequalities through the COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond
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.
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How we’re working to improve children’s access to nutritious food during COVID-19 outbreak
30 April, 2020
Our childhood obesity Programme Director, Sarah Hickey, explains how we're working to improve children's health in the pandemic.
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Supporting communities most affected by 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.
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How we're responding to the pandemic
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.
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Air pollution and children's health
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.
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Solving air pollution is within our reach – but we need better evidence around what works
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.
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Cleaner air is good for everyone – and vital for those with heart conditions
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.
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Tackling the heath effects of air pollution – the key lessons guiding our approach
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.
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Why health inequalities have not changed since 2010
27 February, 2020
Ten years after the Marmot Review, our Chief Executive, Kieron Boyle, looks back and explores why health inequalities have not changed.
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Ten years on from the Marmot Review – what we know about addressing health inequalities
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.
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Making convenience stores healthier – what we’ve learned from our local pilot
20 February, 2020
Our Portfolio Manager, Jessica Attard, shares what we're learning about what changes are possible to make convenience stores healthier.
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Ensuring healthier and longer lives: focusing on place and social determinants
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.
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What is an endowment for?
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.
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Improving fast food in Southwark: a data-driven approach
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.
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Learning from London’s Foodscape
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.
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Collaborating for the future to improve children's health
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.
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Supporting our Trust in 2019
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.
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Looking back and thinking ahead – a message from our Chief Executive
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.
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How is our work on childhood obesity informing Government policy?
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.
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Designing financial interventions to help slow down people's progression to multiple long-term health conditions
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.
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Our urban health learning project - the ten global cities we look to learn from
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.
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Work, finance and housing: addressing key social factors of multiple long-term conditions
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.
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Giving families access to healthy options to tackle childhood obesity
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.
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Supporting schools to provide healthy options to improve children's health
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.
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Creating change across our streets to tackle childhood obesity
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.
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Addressing childhood obesity in schools - what the evidence shows
30 September, 2019
Teaming up with Behavioural Insights Team, we explore why targetting school settings is vital in helping to reduce the childhood obesity inequality gap, and how we can support a ‘whole school culture’ to have the greatest impact.
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Slowing down progression to multiple long-term conditions through better healthcare
26 September, 2019
Our Portfolio Manager, Michael Parsons, explores our vision for what healthcare is - place-based, insight-led and more than just disease - and how we plan to intervene through our healthcare strand to slow people's progression from one to many multiple conditions.