Impact on Urban Health
Good Food Retail is a national movement making healthier, affordable, and culturally appropriate food more accessible in independent convenience stores across the UK.
Founded in 2019 by Rice Marke...
We partnered with Imperial College London and social enterprise TSIP to work with residents in Lambeth and Southwark to create the UK’s first co-designed, solar-powered, outdoor air quality display...
We’re supporting the Ella Roberta Foundation to campaign on the health effects of air pollution, with a particular aim to protect children from poor air quality.
Learn more about our partnership w...
In this film from 2024, Love Ssega talks about Live + Breathe and the value of amplifying voices.
Amplifying Voices
At Impact on Urban Health, we believe the people whose health is most affected b...
This year, we’ve worked with over 70 partners to test solutions to the causes of poor health in urban areas. To celebrate just some of their impact this year, we spoke to four of those partners.
O...
Freight – the delivery of goods and services – is the backbone of our economy. But the system is outdated. HGVs and LGVs congest streets in urban areas, with devastating effects on people’s health....
Freight is the backbone of our economy, but the system is outdated. We see it every day: HGVs and LGVs congesting streets and churning out toxic air pollution. It has serious effects for our health...
Freight – the delivery of goods and services – is the backbone of our economy. But the system is outdated. HGVs and LGVs congest streets in urban areas, with devastating effects on people’s health....
Funders, policymakers and mainstream climate campaigners need to broaden their understanding of what climate action is.
By recognising the different ways that people from Black and other minorit...
In 2023, we supported over 100 outstanding partners to find solutions to ill-health in cities. Our Executive Director, Peter Babadu, presents a roundup of their achievements.
Find out more: https:...
In early 2021, we commissioned Renaisi and Close-Up Research to help us better understand the reality of life for those affected by behavioural difficulties. Over several weeks, Renaisi and Close-U...
Credits:
Tim Butcher: Director
Ben Clowes: Director of Photography
Dominic Hassall: Production Assistant
Thanks to the individuals who featured in this video:
Rohan Martyres - Interim Programme ...
During the pandemic, organisations like food banks and mental health services were dealing with increases in demand while losing funding. There was a real chance that these services wouldn’t be abl...
Donna, mother of one, on local food options and affordability.
We've worked with Shift to produce Families and Food - an ethnographic study of local families with young children on low incomes liv...
Ying lives with her husband and child in Bermondsey. Being environmentally aware and a mother, she would like to know more about air pollution and how it affects our health.
She shared her story a...
Sarah is an outdoor worker for an environmental education charity in Lambeth. She doesn’t own a car and tries to cycle most places, with public transport her back-up option.
She shared her story a...
Piarve is the parent of Janila, 8, and has lived in Southwark all her life. Piarve works in events for an interior design company, as well as running sewing classes and other community fashion init...
Marilyn is a retired art teacher who lives in Brixton with her husband and three grown-up children. As a teenager she was treated for TB and, following the recent death of her brother, has become e...
John is 72 and lives in Southwark. He loves the hustle and bustle of the area, but is not very mobile and doesn’t get out as much as he’d like to.
He shared his story and experience of air polluti...