SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, Global Operations & Impact
Since 2017, we have supported the development of innovative social enterprise ventures intended to contribute to nutritional equity, population health, and community resilience, such as the multi-award-winning Mobile Teaching Kitchen International Initiative (MTKi), which operates across multiple jurisdictions. Our work in this area has been supported extensively by UKRI Global and Grand Challenges awards operated through consortia led by the University of Cambridge.
Since 2019, our Institute has operated as a non-profit social enterprise hosted at St John’s Innovation Centre, Cambridge, supported by Innovate UK, and our global operations bring together a vast array of professionals from across the six continents into a single delivery framework. Our pathways to impact include international policy dialogue, the development of global youth leaders and the recognition of excellence in communities of practice through annual awards.
Aim
Direct action and evaluation to lessen the nutrition and health inequalities gap through building transferrable and scalable models of lean innovation and through the empowerment of marginalised populations with a focus on lesser resourced settings.
key programmes and platforms
Mobile Teaching Kitchen International (MTKi) Initiative
Flagship Social Enterprise programme
The Mobile Teaching Kitchen International (MTKi) Initiative is a multi-award-winning flagship programme delivering culinary nutrition education integrated with microenterprise development. It operates across multiple geographies, including India, the UK, Mexico, and the USA.
MTKi functions as a community-based model linking nutrition education, behaviour change, and livelihood generation, with implementation across diverse populations and settings, including the Bhavishya Shakti Co-operative Society in India.
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Community-based delivery linking nutrition education, behaviour change, and livelihood generation
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Implementation across diverse populations and local contexts
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Integration of training, enterprise development, and community engagement
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Localised models, including the Bhavishya Shakti Co-operative Society in India
UK & International Policy Dialogue Forum
Global Advocacy Platform
The UK & International Policy Dialogue Forum serves as a strategic platform for global advocacy, bringing together cross-sector stakeholders to enable structured dialogue at the intersection of policy, research, and implementation in food, nutrition, and health.
Through this forum, we bring together policy makers, multilateral organisations, academic institutions, and implementation partners to facilitate evidence-informed dialogue, knowledge exchange, and alignment across sectors.
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Engagement with policymakers, academic institutions, and implementation partners.
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Facilitation of dialogue and knowledge exchange across sectors.
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Alignment with national, regional, and global policy ecosystems.
junior ambassdors
Future leaders and Public engagement
Our Global Youth Ambassadors Club is designed to build early leadership, awareness, and community-led action across food, nutrition, and sustainability.
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Flagship programmes include:
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Global Youth Essay Competition: an annual initiative inviting young participants across age groups and geographies to reflect on pressing global nutrition and health challenges, fostering critical thinking, innovation, and the articulation of future-facing solutions
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The Confluence: an interdisciplinary performing arts initiative that brings together culture, storytelling, and performance to reflect key global themes, inspire social awareness, and mobilise support for NNEdPro’s community-based intervention programmes.
The International Food and Nutrition Trust (TIFN)
Recognition, Awards and GLobal IMpact Forum
The International Food and Nutrition Trust (TIFN), founded by NNEdPro, drives the recognition and amplification of excellence and impact across food, nutrition, and health initiatives globally.
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The Trust delivers the NNEdPro-IANE Annual Awards Scheme, in association with the NNEdPro International Summit, recognising individuals and organisations contributing to nutrition education, research, policy, and community impact.
Global Operations & Virtual Delivery
crosscutting social enterprise platform
Our Social Enterprise work is enabled by a coordinated global, virtual and digitally enabled operating model, allowing:
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collaboration across multiple countries;
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efficient programme delivery; and
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global stakeholder engagement.