Focus on place

We are the largest place-based health foundation in the UK. This focus on place is particularly important to our approach.

For us, ‘place’ has three complementary meanings:

• an actual place – in our case, the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, in South London
• a type of place – we focus our energies on areas that are urban, diverse and deprived
• the context of place – how the environments people live in create both assets and risks for their health

Focusing on a small geography allows us to layer and coordinate projects with others in order to create impact that is bigger than the sum of their parts.

We focus our efforts in two vibrant, diverse and busy areas in South London

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What makes us different

We believe there are five distinct aspects to our work:

• Place. We work in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, supporting new approaches to health, sharing insights and learning with anyone facing similar challenges.
• Focus. Our programmatic approach focuses on a few complex health issues at a time. Currently we’re aiming to reduce childhood obesity and improve health and care for people with multiple long-term conditions.
• Connecting. We bring great minds together, within and outside the NHS, to come at problems from different angles. And we collaborate, partnering with anyone – here and in other cities – to find, develop and deliver the best possible approaches to drive change.
• Vision. Great ideas sometimes need the space and resource to fly and to reach their potential – so we take a long-term view and keep a very open mind.
• Impact. We're led by evidence and focussed on outcomes – always testing, evaluating, learning and adapting for greater results. By combining our resources with others, we create the kind of firepower that achieves meaningful change now and for future generations.

How we drive change