Brief Description

Health charity C3 Collaborating for Health (C3) brings together different communities to create changes that make it easier for people to: improve what they eat and drink, stop using tobacco, and do more physical activity. Collaboration is integral to C3’s work. We partner with industries overlooked by traditional public health approaches because we recognise that no individual sector can successfully reduce chronic disease. To date C3 has partnered with over 80 organisations through its network of over 3,000 experts across the world. In 2017, Sigma Theta Tau International awarded C3 its internationally renowned Archon Award for exceptional leadership in advancing health in the world. Together, we can make it easier to live healthy lives.

Vision & Mission

Vision: A world where people are not dying from preventable chronic disease because they find it easier to live healthy lives.

Mission: C3 brings together different communities to create changes that make it easier for people to: improve what they eat and drink, stop using tobacco, and do more physical activity.

Aims & Activities

Our programmes
1. Local neighbourhoods: We use an innovative mobile tool (CHESS®) to equip local neighbourhoods to collect evidence about their communities’ strengths and the barriers they face every day when making choices about diet, activity and healthy living.
2. Businesses: C3 is unusual amongst organisations for working as a neutral partner to aid businesses who truly want to improve health and wellbeing. We assist in developing multi-sector partnerships, managing dynamic events, evaluating health activities, and undertaking research to inform strategic priorities and corporate social responsibility. 
3. Health professionals: We help health professionals, particularly nurses, enhance their own knowledge and adopt healthy lifestyles, and support them in becoming advocates for their colleagues, patients, families and communities.

Our services:
Strategy consulting
Convening
Writing
Evaluation
Partnership working
Workplace health

Facts & Figures

                            •	A health charity aimed at preventing chronic disease nationally and globally.
•	We work with thousands of experts and partner organisations to develop solutions to some of society’s biggest public health challenges.
•	All of our work is focused on helping people to stop smoking, eat and drink better and be more physically active.
•	C3 was founded with a belief in the power of data and evidence to create behaviour change, with communities of people (local communities, business, nurses) at the core of this.
•	We believe in collaboration and in spreading ideas far and wide. We do this through commercial consultancy, thought leadership, and networking.
                            

                            C3 Collaborating for Health serves all those in the UK at risk of dying from chronic disease. The major chronic diseases – cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancers, chronic lung disease – are the UK’s leading cause of death, illness and disability, with over half a million deaths occurring each year (WHO NCD Country Profiles 2014). 46% of total NHS costs are from diseases related to physical inactivity, smoking, poor diet, and harmful alcohol use which are the primary contributors to chronic diseases (Scarborough P et al 2011). Up to 80% of early deaths from chronic diseases could be prevented or delayed by addressing these behaviours (WHO Chronic Disease: A Vital Investment 2005). 

We focus on particular communities to maximise our impact: disadvantaged neighbourhoods, businesses (where we spend much of our life as employees, and who can influence health through policies & corporate social responsibility), and health professionals.
                            

Awards

Archon Award by Sigma Theta Tau International in 2017