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

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 early stage, the idea or technology …

Explore our 10-year strategy

2024年11月24日 · There are no policy recommendations in this report – Nesta’s new blueprint for halving obesity already makes it possible to identify the most effective policy interventions to pursue and at what scale to reduce obesity. Instead, this is a manual for how to drive meaningful change in food policy, with our interviewees sharing what went wrong behind the scenes when …

2021年3月1日 · Our new strategy will require new skills and partnerships and fresh ways of working. It will require us to be diverse in the skills and perspectives we bring together, and cut across the usual boundaries of the public, private and voluntary sectors, and the divisions between academia, industry and government.

2025年2月4日 · Nesta, BIT and Wellcome, in collaboration with RAND Europe, launched a report today in Westminster which presents a roadmap toward a future-proof NHS driven by research and innovation. ‘From Research to Reality’ outlines key steps needed to achieve the government's NHS 10 Year Plan. It does this by taking an evidence-led approach, combining …

2025年2月3日 · The UK’s housing stock is very old. More than half of properties are over 60 years old .; The UK has an unusually low number of flats compared to mainland Europe. 25% of English dwellings are detached houses and bungalows, 25% are semi-detached, ~30% are terraced houses and only ~20% are flats.

2021年3月1日 · 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.

2025年2月3日 · Electric boilers turn electricity directly into heat that is transferred to a home via water in radiators or underfloor heating. They have efficiencies of nearly 100% and modern versions - zero-emission boilers (ZEBs) are paired with a heat battery to store heat during periods when electricity prices are lower.