Nesta is an innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale new solutions to society’s biggest problems, changing millions of lives for the better.

A summary of Nesta including our 10-year strategy for what we want to achieve

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

We are interdisciplinary, uniting futures methods such as simulation and scenario building with data science and qualitative research.. We are participatory.We believe that local communities, practitioners and those with lived experience are vital sources of insight. We are led by social impact.While some innovations we explore are at a very …

3 days ago · Ravi Gurumurthy is Group Chief Executive Officer, joining Nesta as Chief Executive in December 2019. It’s now 25 years since the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts came into being. The idea was to use £250 million of National Lottery funding to create the UK’s first-ever ...

Everyone deserves to live a long and healthy life. But right now in the UK, almost two-thirds of people are living with excess weight and obesity.These conditions are leading causes of ill health in the UK. They increase the risk of disease and other health problems, reducing quality of life and placing a severe burden on our economy and society.

To enable the next Welsh Government to reduce obesity rates, Nesta suggests implementing the following high-impact actions: Regulating unhealthy food promotions in the retail sector Restrictions on all high-fat, high-salt and high-sugar (HFSS) price promotions in food and retail businesses, including temporary reductions and meal deals. Promotional incentives should be rebalanced to make ...

Explore our 10-year strategy

Our strategy sets out ambitious targets for the impact we want to achieve by 2030 and details our plans for how we'll partner with people and organisations throughout the UK to achieve our goals.. We have offices in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.Our staff work from across the UK. Through our networks, practice teams and specialist enterprises we …

Mar 1, 2021 · Our strategy focuses on three innovation missions. Our goal is that, by 2030, the UK will have eliminated the school readiness gap between those born into deprivation and their peers, with similar gains at age 16 among students receiving free school meals.