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 ...

Mapping the most significant obstacles for households to enable a quicker, easier, and more affordable transition to low-carbon heating. We believe that making heat pump installations quicker and ...

Hear about our new analysis of the market for parenting interventions. We’ll highlight the need for a concentrated effort to strengthen the market of parenting support, and recommendations on how to ...

From Autumn 2024, Nesta, in partnership with the Ethos Foundation, brought together a coalition of partners across the early years to propose a high-level blueprint for how the new family hubs ...

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For householders interested in getting a heat pump, it’s really hard to know how much the transition might cost. This project will scope the potential to generate “good enough” cost estimations that ...

Could planning the transition to low-carbon heat at a local level support householders, the supply chain and other key stakeholders in this process? What does a local heat plan need to include, how do ...

Earlier this year we presented our landscape of innovation approaches. Since publishing this diagram we’ve received many helpful comments and suggestions. We’ve also created a list of approaches not ...

How lowering the cost ratio of electricity to gas permanently would help make heating greener The government's support for householders in the form of the Energy Price Guarantee not only kept energy ...

This report illuminates the power of people in movements to improve health and proposes the need for new models of engagement between institutions and social movements.

The heat pump survey paints a positive picture for the future of heat pump adoption, showing that the majority of users are satisfied with their system. It also highlighted some improvements that ...

We've used a big data approach to measure and map the UK games industry and track its evolution over time.