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Supporting collaboration to improve child health

We worked with Impact on Urban Health to facilitate relationship building, learning and sharing, to improve children’s health.

The challenge

Impact on Urban Health is an independent foundation that works to improve health in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. They have a 10-year programme to break the link between low income and poor nutrition, by improving the quality of food options in lower-income neighbourhoods.

As part of this programme, the foundation funds and works with a range of organisations to deliver projects and conduct research. The foundation needed a systematic approach to supporting these organisations to work together effectively in order to  maximise the impact of the programme.

Kaleidoscope partnered with Impact on Urban Health to support the design and delivery of the Children’s Health and Food Programme Network.

Our approach

Our approach started by carrying out a user-centred design phase with both Impact on Urban Health and the partner organisations to explore and understand their individual and collective goals and potential ways to increase impact by working effectively together.

Following scoping activities, we launched a learning network for the member organisations, designed to facilitate relationship building, learning and sharing.

Our work included:

  • designing and hosting an engaging launch event attended by over 50 partners and collaborators
  • facilitating a series of learning and sharing events, both online and face-to-face, designed to build and sustain relationships, explore local issues, share experiences and best practices
  • producing regular communication through newsletters and a microsite to share learnings and updates and foster a feeling of community
  • facilitating virtual coffee meetings for members to get to know each other
  • developing and using a set of evaluation and impact measures for the network.

Results

Over two years Kaleidoscope supported more than 20 learning and sharing events that members found engaging and valuable. In addition, members engaged with the network newsletter and used it as a mechanism to share resources and learnings.

Both members and colleagues from Impact on Urban Health consistently reported finding the network to be a valuable use of time that would increase the impact of the programme overall.

Kaleidoscope understood the complexity and context of our programme, and the diversity of organisations who made up the network. They used this knowledge to help us think about how best to engage with network members, and to curate an  interesting and insightful  series of events for the network.  Throughout this project they encouraged us to be creative and ambitious and delivered their work to a high standard, on time and with care.

Carole Coulon, Portfolio Manager, Impact on Urban Health, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation


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