Local teams helped children and adults to live fitter, healthier and happier lives, delivering nearly 700 programmes. We also welcomed our 60,000th MEND participant.

We teamed up with Diabetes UK to run Healthy Lifestyle Roadshows around the country. Graduates shared their experiences of how their lives had changed after MEND.

We hopped, skipped and jumped to a hopscotch world record with Tower Hamlets kids, as part of Bupa’s worldwide corporate volunteering day.

We worked with Bupa and NHS Tower Hamlets to launch Building Powerful Communities, a community wide approach to obesity in the borough.

With Sinitta, we launched the second National Childhood Obesity Week alongside Change4Life’s Really Big Summer Adventure.

We partnered with the Rugby Premiership to get six of their clubs delivering MEND programmes locally, encouraging their communities to get active and healthy.

We teamed up with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust to launch a new mentoring project in Tower Hamlets. Former Olympic swimmer Adam Whitehead mentored children and families, helping to build the Olympic legacy.

We established the MEND International Research Group (MIRG), an independent group of leading academics, to guide MEND’s research strategy.

Our experts got busy developing new programmes and services and tailoring them to meet local needs: Momenta for adults, an under 5s service for NHS Ealing, MEND SEN and MEND Teens.

We wrapped up the £8 million Big Lottery Fund Wellbeing portfolio, after hitting our targets and achieving a status of ‘outstanding’.

We were chosen to deliver large-scale contracts for child weight management services in The Wirral and Buckinghamshire.

Our research team continued to build our evidence base, and we published our 29th MEND publication.

We were awarded a major CDC funded child obesity prevention grant in the USA to evaluate MEND’s family programmes using an RCT.

We presented data on over 15,000 children at the Obesity Society Conference in Orlando and the World Diabetes Congress in Dubai.

We formed new corporate partnerships. We were chosen as one of three national partners for the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust to support families in the most deprived areas of the UK. We are also working with Kellogg’s Swim Active to fund swimming facilities and train staff for local MEND programmes.

We showcased our fantastic partnerships and spread positive health messages at the Autumn party conferences.

We grew our international reach by setting up MEND Inc in the USA, which has partnered with AmeriGroup.

We adapted MEND 2-4 and MEND 7-13 in partnership with Alberta Health Services for families in Canada.

The MEND Foundation, a US charity, secured partnerships with the Colorado Health Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Anthem Wellpoint among others.

For more information about MEND, call us on 0800 230 0263 or email info@mendcentral.org