# 10 charity winners of 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/28/10-winners-gsk-impact-awards-2017-announced/
- Published: 2017-02-28T16:52:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/gsk-impact-awards),
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](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GSKIMPACTUK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [pic.twitter.com/sbeD28Nb4t](https://t.co/sbeD28Nb4t)
> 
> ## Advertisement
> 
> — GSK (@GSK) [February 28, 2017](https://twitter.com/GSK/status/836519302379552768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

[Entries to the GSK IMPACT Awards](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/07/01/2017-gsk-impact-awards-open-entries/)
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](http://www.uk.gsk.com/gskimpactawards)
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](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GSKIMPACTUK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> 2017 winner [@TynesideWH](https://twitter.com/TynesideWH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) 
> provides services to help women in [#Tyneside](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tyneside?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing [pic.twitter.com/Xpk7N5kCvX](https://t.co/Xpk7N5kCvX)
> — The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) [February 28, 2017](https://twitter.com/TheKingsFund/status/836542766054268928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [#GSKIMPACTUK](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GSKIMPACTUK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> 2017 winner [@StudentMindsOrg](https://twitter.com/StudentMindsOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> helps university students to look after their own and others’ mental health [pic.twitter.com/gqdmFYuu0m](https://t.co/gqdmFYuu0m)
> — The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) [February 28, 2017](https://twitter.com/TheKingsFund/status/836539054669893632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [#GSKIMPACTUK](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GSKIMPACTUK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> 2017 winner [@SahirHouse](https://twitter.com/SahirHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) 
> is an HIV support, information and advice centre in [#Liverpool](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Liverpool?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw),
> Merseyside [pic.twitter.com/ejH00T51MB](https://t.co/ejH00T51MB)
> — The King's Fund (@TheKingsFund) [February 28, 2017](https://twitter.com/TheKingsFund/status/836531550678306816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

## 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.

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