10 charity winners of 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards announced
Howard Lake | 28 February 2017 | News
Ten charities from across the UK have won the 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards for improving health and wellbeing in their communities. Each will receive £30,000 as part of the prize.
This is the 20th anniversary of the awards, GSK’s flagship UK community investment programme. Run with The King’s Fund, the Awards have distributed more than £5.8 million to more than 420 charities since 1997.
We're celebrating 20 years of the GSK IMPACT Awards, supporting incredible charities working in community health across the UK #GSKIMPACTUK pic.twitter.com/sbeD28Nb4t
— GSK (@GSK) February 28, 2017
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Entries to the GSK IMPACT Awards were announced in July 2016.
This year’s winners beat more than 400 other organisations who entered.
2017 winners
The 10 winners of the 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards are:
- Basis Yorkshire – supporting female sex workers in Leeds and young people being sexually exploited or at risk
- Carers Leeds – providing services for unpaid carers who look after family, friends, or neighbours in Leeds
- Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre – offering support to people in Coventry who have experienced sexual or domestic abuse
- First Steps – a charity for people with eating disorders in Derbyshire
- Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust – an organisation running health development and promotion activities in South Lanarkshire
- PAC-UK – offering support to those affected by adoption
- Sahir House – an HIV support, information and advice centre in Merseyside
- Sight Cymru – supporting people in Wales who have lost or are losing their sight to live independently
- Student Minds – helping university students to look after their own mental health and support friends experiencing mental health difficulties
- Tyneside Women’s Health – a charity providing services to help women in Tyneside improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The 10 winning charities will receive their awards at a ceremony at the Science Museum in London on 18 May. An overall winner will be named on the night and awarded an additional £10,000.
#GSKIMPACTUK 2017 winner @TynesideWH provides services to help women in #Tyneside improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing pic.twitter.com/Xpk7N5kCvX
— The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) February 28, 2017
#GSKIMPACTUK 2017 winner @StudentMindsOrg helps university students to look after their own and others’ mental health pic.twitter.com/gqdmFYuu0m
— The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) February 28, 2017
#GSKIMPACTUK 2017 winner @SahirHouse is an HIV support, information and advice centre in #Liverpool, Merseyside pic.twitter.com/ejH00T51MB
— The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) February 28, 2017
What the winners receive
As well as the £30,000 in funding, winning charities receive access to free training and leadership development.
They are also invited to join the GSK IMPACT Awards Network, a national network of more than 70 award-winning health and wellbeing charities working together to develop their leaders, find new ways of working and support others.
Lisa Weaks, Head of Third Sector at The King’s Fund, said:
“The GSK IMPACT Awards programme, which provides training and development opportunities as well as funding, has proved to be a great source of support for these charities. It’s also a wonderful way of highlighting the UK’s top community health and wellbeing charities and their amazing work taking place all over the country.”
Next year’s GSK IMPACT Awards
Entries to the 2018 GSK Impact Awards will launch at the beginning of July 2017.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.