Funding better nutrition for healthier lives
The Nutritional Wellbeing Foundation is an independent UK grantmaking foundation supporting grounded, evidence-informed work to improve public health through better nutrition.We fund organisations working to change the conditions that shape what people eat - particularly for young people in secondary school settings and, increasingly, within health systems.
Our Approach
NWF WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2023 TO HELP ADDRESS THE LACK OF SUSTAINED INVESTMENT IN NUTRITION AS A LEVER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH.
Good nutrition is foundational to health, learning and opportunity, but what people eat is shaped by much more than individual choice - including food environments, household circumstances, commercial pressures, school culture and public policy.
NWF funds organisations working to change those wider conditions, rather than placing responsibility on individuals to make better choices.
We are particularly interested in secondary school environments because they are an important place to influence the conditions that shape what young people eat.
How We Work
We take time to get to know the people and organisations working to improve nutrition, and where our funding could be genuinely useful. We are interested in practical work, real-world learning and ideas that can help shift the wider conditions shaping what people eat.
Our funding priorities
NUTRITION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Our mission is to improve nutrition for young people in secondary schools by funding and strengthening the people, practice and systems that make healthier food more accessible, equitable and influential in everyday school life.
NUTRITION IN
HEALTH SETTINGS
We are beginning to explore how nutrition can have greater status and practical relevance in primary care and wider health systems, including how health professionals understand and act on nutrition, and how patients access appropriate support.
Our Funding
The Nutritional Wellbeing Foundation is funded through its ownership of Cytoplan, a British science-based supplement company with a long-standing commitment to nutrition and health. NWF receives a share of Cytoplan’s annual profits to support our charitable grantmaking. This gives the Foundation a stable source of funding for our work.
NWF is governed by a board of six trustees, who set the Foundation’s strategy and make funding decisions independently.
