Making a Meal is a report charting three years of Shift’s work to increase families’ access to affordable good food …
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Making a Meal
Learning and reflections from three years making affordable good food for families.
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Urban Food Futures: Changing the fate of our food environments
This foresight report, published by Impact on Urban Health and SOIF with support from Shift, explores key platforms for changing …
Putting communities at the heart of programme design
Duncan shares five key learnings from our work supporting the development of Impact on Urban Health’s Good Food Fund.
Our takeaway: What we’ve learnt running a healthier local food business
In late 2019, with support from Impact on Urban Health (then Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity), we launched Medleys, an …
Final year design students set brief for brand strategy for our food venture
BA (Hons) Graphic Branding and Identity students at London College of Communications pitched ideas for our Better Everyday Takeaway venture.
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Shop Digital: Understanding the influence of digital on shopping behaviours
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Understanding how digital can nudge a healthier family food shop
The Challenge The shopping experience makes unhealthy food choices easier to find, harder to ignore and more affordable, meaning the …
VIDEO: Shift’s Development Director on families and food behaviours at #ShopWellEatWell
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Hot, prepared revolution: A summary of two years work looking at takeaways
Shift has developed the UK’s most detailed understanding of takeaway food, families’ relationship with it, the role hot, prepared food …
Chris Holmes, MD of Shift’s Healthy Food Programme, speaking on BBC News
Chris discusses the rise of fast food takeaway shops their effect on obesity.
Building a social enterprise to tackle childhood obesity Part 2: Validating the concept
Kids are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer. We’re taking a design thinking approach to building …
Building a social enterprise to tackle childhood obesity: part 1
Kids are getting fatter. Generations are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer. This is a …
Shift’s first ever Annual Awards
Here at Shift we have developed a clear idea of how we want to act as an organisation, which we …
Families and Food: how can we help families swim against the current?
Blog from our Food Director Chris Holmes & Sarah Hickey from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Charity exploring how food environments can help or hinder people to live well.
Giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee
Our Food Director gives evidence on the role of takeaways in childhood obesity to the Health & Social Care Select Committee.
Shift’s healthier fast food adventure
The story so far… Shift has been working to increase healthier food habits over the last six years. Here we …
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Affordable good food for families
The Challenge All children deserve the right to be healthy, no matter where they grow up. This includes access to …
Stealthy Healthy Changes: Designing tweaks to fast food outlets to improve health and maintain profits
It’s a bit of a special week this week for the food team as our first intervention tests have gone …
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Healthy Fast Food: Evaluating a new approach to improving the food environment
Evaluation Report Naomi Stoll, Kathleen Collet, Duncan Brown and Sean Noonan
We’re nominated for an Urban Food Award
We’re excited to tell you that our project that puts healthy fast food outlets in areas dominated by unhealthy options, …
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Box Chicken:
a healthier alternative to fast food near schools
“Rather than restricting takeaway food we should seek to transform it, by making healthy food as visible, tasty, and cheap …
Street Food for social change: why gourmet hipsters are just part of the story
If you walk a few hundred metres west from Old Street roundabout, the new hub of London’s tech start up …
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Box Chicken: Providing some healthy competition to fast food outlets
Evaluation Report Kathleen Collett
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Chicken Shops: Fuelling London’s Youth
Infographic on the prevalence and effect of fast food outlets Tori Flower and Kate Ferrier
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Chicken Shops and Poor Diets
Summary of research findings including behavioural observation, survey of young people, local environment mapping, ethnography, chicken shop business profiling Tori …
Box Chicken Launch
Hadrian Garrard from Create London and Nick Stanhope discuss the need for practical interventions to tackle poor diets at the launch of Box Chicken, a pilot of a healthy fast food outlet.
Our obsession with chicken shops
Earlier this year, I wrote about our early obesity research, through which we started looking at the way that the …
Overweight by default
We’ve spent a good chunk of the last year looking at how our approach to behaviour change can play a …