Place and focus

For over 500 years we’ve been based in Lambeth and Southwark, two of the UK’s most diverse and deprived areas, focusing on improving the health of local people. We do this in a number of ways:

• We work with a range of partners – both within and outside of Lambeth and Southwark – to identify, test and scale new approaches to health and healthcare. We take a programmatic approach, identifying the biggest health issues for people in our communities, understanding what's underneath these issues, and working with others to address them. We collaborate with anyone who has the very best approaches and shares our drive to make them happen. Whenever possible, we fund jointly with others.
• Through a combination of fundraising and our own philanthropic support, we help Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust provide exceptional care and a world-class environment for patients and staff at Guy's, St Thomas' and Evelina Children's Hospital, as well as in community health services across the boroughs.
   

Our strategy and theory of change

Over the next few years, we’re focusing on:

• Tackling complex health challenges in Lambeth and Southwark, learning about improving health in urban, deprived and diverse areas
  To do this, we are concentrating on a small number of programmes focused on key health issues. We want to test and demonstrate how the coordinated layering of interventions within a geography can have a step-change impact.
   
• Improving staff welfare and patient experience in Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust through our unique position as the Trust’s charity
  We will strengthen our role as the fundraising charity for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. By adopting a new approach to collecting and deploying fundraised income, we want to support our hospitals and community sites to deliver world-class care.

We are proud of our association with: