About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

Creating healthier school meals and habits for life

With universal free school meals due to be rolled out to primary school children across Wales by September 2024, the importance of health and nutrition in school food has never been more important. We’re keen to find ways to increase the healthiness of food eaten in school. Evidence suggests that school meals are considerably more healthy than packed lunches — on average school meals have been shown to contain less sugar, saturated fat and total calories than packed lunches. This suggests that we can make a considerable improvement to children’s diets by shifting more children from eating packed lunches to eating school meals.

Team

Jonathan Bone

Jonathan Bone

Jonathan Bone

Mission Manager, healthy life mission

Jonathan works within Nesta Cymru (Wales), focusing on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in Wales.

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Patricia Beloe

Patricia Beloe

Patricia Beloe

Analyst, healthy life mission

Patricia Beloe is an analyst in the healthy life team.

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Mathilde Gouin

Mathilde Gouin

Mathilde Gouin

Designer, healthy life mission

Mathilde was a designer for the healthy life mission.

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Clara Widdison

Clara Widdison

Clara Widdison

Mission Manager, healthy life mission

Clara is the mission manager for the healthy life mission.

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Parita Doshi

Parita Doshi

Parita Doshi

Deputy Director, healthy life mission

Her team is focused on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in the UK.

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Björn Rust

Björn Rust

Björn Rust

Design Lead, healthy life mission

Björn works as a design lead for our healthy life mission, supporting collaborators to identify design opportunities and deliver person-centred research and health outcomes.

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