Eight charities that cover a wide range of support services and disease areas are celebrating as winners in this year’s GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards. Run in partnership with The King’s Fund, the eight each receive £25,000, four highly commended charities £5,000 and three runners up £3,000. As well as the funding boost the winners will attend a five-day development programme hosted by The King’s Fund.
Katie Pinnock, the corporate contributions director at GSK, said: “For 15 years, the IMPACT Awards have been rewarding innovative charities that transform people’s lives and over £4 million has been awarded.
“This year’s winners showcase the incredible ways charities can make a difference and why it is so important that we continue to support them.”
The awards are open to charities with an income of between £10,000 and £1.5 million that are at least three years old. The name ‘IMPACT’ derives from the criteria they need to demonstrate: Innovation, Management, Partnership, Achievement, Community Focus and Targeting Need.
The 2012 winners are: Age UK Cheshire East; Beacon Counselling, Stockport; Blackburn and Darwen Healthy Living; Target Ovarian Cancer; Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (Cornwall); Healthy Valleys (South Lanarkshire); Hepatitis C Trust; and the Women’s Health Information and Support Centre (Liverpool). The three Gold IMPACT Champions winners are: Crew 2000 (Edinburgh), HALE (Bradford) and The Metro Centre (South London and Kent).
An overall winner will be announced at the Science Museum in London on 17 May and will receive an additional £10,000 for their work.
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