Learn more about our charitable giving in 2024
Alongside our charitable owners, the Nutrition and Wellbeing Foundation (NWF), we are fortunate enough to donate to several causes across the UK each year. The NWF is a grant-making charity based in the UK. Our current focus areas are increasing the understanding of nutrition and its importance for health amongst health practitioners and reducing childhood obesity. With malnutrition on the rise, educating about nutrition is crucial. Our donations aim to promote wellness and boost the nation's health.
IN 2024 WE DONATED:
IN 2024 WE WORKED WITH:
6 AMBITIOUS & INNOVATIVE CHARITIES
Our key areas of focus
Nutrition for health and wellbeing:
Increasing the understanding of nutrition and its importance for health amongst medical students and health practitioners.
Early years:
Championing good nutrition and empowering families, schools and policy makers to make more informed choices around children’s nutrition to tackle malnutrition & the childhood obesity crisis.
Supporting locally, changing the system
The NWF's grants seek to intervene at the the level of the system, so that change can be wide and have a lasting impact. Their funds support work that changes policy, structures, mindsets and practice, through collaborations, research, awareness raising, campaigning, good practice, testing & sharing.
By purchasing from Cytoplan, you are directly supporting innovative health initiatives across the UK.
So choosing us to support your wellness journey, makes a big difference!
Thank you.
The charities you are helping to support
Founded by two trailblazing medical students, Nutritank educates medics and other health professionals on various topics around nutrition and lifestyle medicine, including exercise, sleep and mental wellbeing.
Institute of Health Visiting (iHV)
The iHV run the Healthy Weight, Healthy Nutrition training programme - an evidence-based, holistic approach to upskill health practitioners to be confident in having conversations with families around healthy nutrition.
Culinary Medicine UK's aim is to promote “sustainable, affordable, equitable and healthy food for all”. They empower health professionals to talk confidently about food in medicine, by combining nutrition science with hands on cooking and culinary skills. Their flagship online course has been accessed by thousands of health professionals.
School Food Matters exists to teach children about food and to improve access to healthy, sustainable food during their time at school. Their latest initiative, the Healthy Zones Programme, is supporting more London schools to adopt a whole school approach to healthier eating.
An alliance of organisations and communities working together for better food, farming, and fishing. They advocate for food and agriculture policies and practices that have the health and welfare of people and animals at their centre. Since 2021 they have been campaigning for universal healthy free school meal provision in England.
First Steps plays a unique role in the UK early years food/nutrition landscape. They were founded in response to concerns around apervasive shortage of evidence-based, independent information and resources on eating well in pregnancy and early years.
Frequently asked questions
Do you support any food charities in the UK?
Yes! We supported many food and nutrition charities in 2024 including School Food Matters and Sustain (children's food campaign).
Do you offer any nutrition training to the charities you support?
Nutrition for health and wellbeing is one of our key areas of focus. We seek to provide nutrition education to some of our charities and community projects by increasing the understanding of nutrition and its importance for health amongst health practitioners. We are one of the leading funders of organisations that are putting nutrition at the heart of medical and practitioner training.
What charity gifts do you offer?
Every pot purchased from our range of nutritional supplements helps us donate to so many charities each year. Every order is a gift in itself to help others across the UK.
Do you offer support for nutrition in the NHS?
We are independently striving to improve the health of the nation alongside the nutritional guidelines in the UK and do not currently work with the NHS.
