Why we are changing our name to financial foundations for adult health

The impact of the pandemic in highlighting racial equity

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, it soon became clear that this health crisis was having more impact on some groups that others.

Black and minoritised people were dying at higher rates than their white counterparts, with their overall health and wellbeing also worse affected. These communities were also more likely to be financially vulnerable, with less savings and fewer resources to overcome the effects of the pandemic shutdown.

The pandemic confirmed for us the integral role that racial equity, especially in cities, plays in health.  By 2021, the multiple long term conditions programme restarted projects that had been delayed by the pandemic and contended with what the rising cost of living meant for our partners and the people they support.

Refining our programme focus

Insights from our programmatic strands in housing, work, and finances were pointing in the same direction, towards the need for financial security to enable good health.

We want to transform the systems that keep people in poverty and ill-health, working with communities to develop initiatives for community wealth-building and health that are accessible and centred around the concerns of local people.

Our new programme name, the financial foundations for adult health, reflects what we have learned, as well as our aims for the future.

Read our new programme strategy.