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The Vitality Lab
Helping young people build healthy habits for life
The Vitality Lab is a community initiative bringing together nutrition science, cooking skills, and health coaching to help teenagers and families turn healthy intentions into lasting habits that support learning, wellbeing, and confidence.
It was created in response to a simple but urgent question: What would it look like if young people were genuinely supported to understand their bodies, nourish themselves well, and build habits that help them thrive – early in life, not after problems appear?
Why The
Vitality Lab exists
Children’s health in the UK is facing a quiet crisis. Rising levels of obesity, type 2 diabetes, low energy, anxiety, and poor concentration are increasingly affecting young people – with long-term consequences for health, education, and opportunity.
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Yet many teenagers are navigating this without:
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a basic understanding of how their bodies work
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practical food and cooking skills
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confidence around making healthy choices
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supportive environments that make those choices easier
As a health coach, policy specialist, and parent of two daughters now in young adulthood, I’ve seen first-hand how difficult today’s food and health environment can be – and how early habits and beliefs shape health for life.
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The Vitality Lab was born from a desire to shift the focus from reactive treatment to empowered prevention, and to make health education practical, human, and genuinely supportive.
What the Vitality Lab does
The Vitality Lab is designed as a six-week, school-based pilot programme, combining insight, skills, and support.
Each week brings together:
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Engaging workshops exploring how food, sleep, movement, and stress affect energy, mood, and mental wellbeing
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Health coaching approaches that help students reflect, experiment, and build confidence – not through pressure, but through understanding and self-trust
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Hands-on cooking sessions to develop essential life skills and show that nourishing food can be enjoyable, achievable, and shared
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Parent sessions to reinforce learning at home and support healthier habits across the family
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The programme culminates in a community event, where students cook for others – applying what they’ve learned and experiencing the pride and connection that comes from giving back.
The pilot and what we’re building towards
We are currently seeking funding to deliver an initial pilot with a local secondary school in Barnet. The programme builds on earlier pro-bono support from Health Coaches Academy through its charitable arm (RIO), including access to trained health coaches and programme support.
The pilot will allow us to:
test and refine the programme
gather meaningful feedback from students, parents, and teachers
evaluate impact on energy, confidence, engagement, and behaviour
build a model that can be shared more widely in the UK and internationally
Over time, the vision is to scale the programme through partnerships with schools, health coaches, and community organisations – helping more young people build strong foundations for health, learning, and life.
How you can support the Vitality Lab
If this vision resonates with you, and you’d like to help bring the pilot to life, there are a few ways you can support:
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by contributing to the pilot fund
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by sharing the project with others who care about children’s health and education
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by getting in touch if you’d like to explore partnership or involvement
Every contribution, large or small, helps move this work from idea to impact. ​
Every contribution, large or small, helps move this work from idea to impact.
If you would like to discuss sponsorship or partnership opportunities, please contact me directly at hello@radiatevitality.co.uk
A Final Note
The Vitality Lab is driven by a simple belief: change is most powerful when inner understanding and external environments work together. By building confidence and skills while shaping supportive
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peer, school, and home settings, healthier choices become easier to build into life — and far more likely to last.