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Project update

Gwyn’s story – the life changing impact of FoodCycle

Before FoodCycle Gwyn rarely went out and did not have friends. Gwyn, who lives with schizophrenia managed through medication, shares his experience of community meals.

A group of children in blue overalls get a pig onto a truck.

Project update

Supporting farm residentials for children and young people

£20,000 was donated in April 2025 to Farms for City Children to help deliver immersive, five-day, fully catered farm residentials to children and young people (CYP).

A support dog and a lady with a walking stick outside

Project update

26 people trained to use a life-changing support dog

The impact of the £15,000 donated in April 2025 towards the funding of an instructor for a disability assistance programme.

Four people stand in front of a brick wall. They are smiling.

Project update

A visit to Crisis in Tower Hamlets, London

A tour of the London Skylight Centre to learn more about the impact of the £75K grant we awarded last year. Thanks to players of The Health Lottery this money has been used to strengthen Crisis’ frontline services in London.

4 women stand in a warehouse with a banner that shows Beauty Banks

Project update

Visiting Beauty Banks in Croydon

Last week, Deborah Roil, our Director of Compliance, spent time at Beauty Banks’ Croydon warehouse, helping pack boxes of essential hygiene products to be sent to local charities and seeing first-hand the vital work Beauty Banks does.

4 girls in football kit sit on the floor at Bloomsbury Football Foundation

Young people

Visiting Bloomsbury Football Foundation

Bloomsbury Football Foundation currently supports over 2,200 girls per week – making the organisation the largest provider of girls’ football in the UK, and by far the largest with a charitable mission that also offers financial support to players.

A woman holds a gift bearing the words Beauty Banks

Health disparity

Taking part in the Beauty Banks Wrapping Day

We took part in wrapping thousands of donated gifts. 96 volunteers gift wrapped more than 3,500 donated beauty and hygiene gifts to be distributed across the UK later this week.

Project update

Heading out to the hills with Farms for City Children

On Thursday 2 October our CEO Delva Patman joined year 6 children from Alfred Salter School, London on their farm residential at Nethercott House in Devon.

A group of woman in a community centre smile at the camera

Chronic disease

Organ donation week – the National Kidney Federation (NKF)

The National Kidney Federation are the largest kidney patient charity in the UK. With approximately 3.25 million people living in the UK with kidney disease, the National Kidney Federation are a lifeline of support and hope to patients and families.

Four women stand in front of a presentation screen in a classroom. It says student minds on the screen.

Project update

A visit to Leeds to meet Student Minds

Delva and Paul met some of the Student Minds team to hear about empowering new student union officers and student society leaders to help address health inequalities.