We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation.

Our focus is on three ambitious missions

A fairer start
Our mission is that from 2030 every child has the same chance of developing to their full potential in the early years.
A healthy life
Our mission is to halve the prevalence of obesity in the UK by 2030.
A sustainable future
Our mission is to reduce home carbon emissions in the UK by 30% by 2030.

We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle

Explore our innovation methods

The Fix with Ravi Gurumurthy

In our podcast, the Nesta CEO is joined each episode by one of the most prominent people in British public life - from politics, business and beyond - to discuss how they’d change things for the better.

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Small Ideas Initiative

In collaboration with Martin Lewis and Involve, the Centre for Collective Intelligence is crowdsourcing practical, non-controversial fixes to make life better

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A powerful ecosystem for innovation

We extend our impact through two specialised units that help people and organisations to solve complex problems and achieve their goals.

BIT

BIT helps clients from government, nonprofits and the private sector to improve people’s lives through our empirical problem solving and deep understanding of human behaviour.

Challenge Works

Challenge Works designs and runs challenge prizes to spark innovation in science, technology and society.