The Healthy Living Lab works with a huge amount of partners across the UK to research, design and deliver interventions, policy recommendations and inclusion programmes that tackle food insecurity, issues in the school food system and social mobility more widely. Here more from those we've worked with below:
The Healthy Living Lab has provided a constant source of knowledge around good practice and maintaining high standards, as well as the development coverage, impact, and outcomes of holiday programmes across the country. The Lab has been particularly helpful in shaping our policy work, with ministers and officials, towards achieving a national programme with government support.
Data showed that teenagers were not engaging with the HAF programme in the way we would have hoped and so we worked with them and colleagues at Northumbria University to design a programme that they wanted to do. “Following the pilot last year, this summer’s programme is a massive step up for us with over 300 HAF Plus participants. Without Northumbria University’s help I don’t think we’d ever have gotten to the point we’re at with the HAF Plus programme. The academic input and support from staff within the University has made the programme happen. Without them I think we’d still be designing it. The work they delivered was outstanding.
Working alongside Greta and the team at Northumbria University has been transformational for our young people in Northumberland. The young people led our design sprint to provide insights and support to develop our teenage HAF offer. This allowed them to take real ownership of what HAF should look like beyond primary school. By increasing the number of teenagers and providers now involved we can ensure the holidays are fun but also offer valuable experiences and connections which is what our young people all asked for.
We have been delighted to partner with Northumbria University to evaluate the impact of Kitchen Social. Through this process, we have developed our service in line with key findings to ensure that the programme has remained effective and successful in its key aims. The team at Northumbria have understood the nature of a dynamic and evolving sector, with the opportunities and constraints that poses, and have designed evaluation and monitoring processes that have complemented activities.
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