# Irish GSK awards open for applications

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/04/irish-gsk-awards-open-applications/
- Published: 2017-04-04T10:42:53+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The GSK Ireland IMPACT Awards 2017 are open for applications. There are five grants
of €10,000 and five of €2,000 available.**

 

The awards are designed to recognise and reward community-based charities doing 
work to improve people’s health and wellbeing in Ireland. The awards are open to
registered charities that are at least three years old, work in a health-related
field in Ireland and with a total annual income between €20,000 and €1,000,000.

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The name ‘IMPACT’ derives from the criteria that winners must demonstrate in their
application – Innovation, Management,  Partnership, Achievement,  Community focus
and Targeting need.

 

The benefits of the GSK Ireland IMPACT Award are:

 

 * Up to five winners will receive €10,000 in unrestricted funding.
 * Up to five runners up will receive €2,000.
 * Winning organisations will be visited by a professional photographer and film
   crew to provide them with a short film and photography for self promotion.
 * Winners will also receive an opportunity to network and learn from other charitable
   organisations in Ireland.
 * The awards provide organisations with an important quality mark to use on websites,
   email signatures and stationary.
 * The GSK Ireland IMPACT winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony
   in Dublin in November 2017.

 

Organisations applying for funding via the GSK Ireland IMPACT Awards will be measured
using the following criteria:

 

**Innovation** – Leadership, creativity and initiative in addressing current challenges
in healthcare access and delivery.

 

**Management** – Efficient use of resources; quality of management processes; clear
objectives and plans; measurement and monitoring of performance; strength and financial
effectiveness of the organisation.

 

**Partnership** – Working effectively with others (members, users, private and public
sector partners, etc); willingness to share ‘best practice’ and to learn from others.

 

**Achievement** – Measurable results achieved; numbers of people benefited, impact
on access to healthcare; difference made.

 

**Community focus** – Involving and responding to users and the community; openness
and provision of information; adaptability to changing circumstances and needs.

 

**Targeting need** – Awareness of community issues and priorities; focus on people
in need.

 

This is the [third year of the GSK Ireland IMPACT Awards](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/18/gsk-ireland-opens-impact-awards/),
an expansion of the [GSK IMPACT Awards in the UK](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/28/10-winners-gsk-impact-awards-2017-announced/)
and USA that have been running for over 20 years, focusing solely on health and 
wellbeing charities in Ireland.

 

[Application forms can be downloaded](http://ie.gsk.com) from the website and the
closing date for applications is **5pm Friday 5th May 2017**.

 

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   13 March 2018)
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