Deadline: 1-Sep-23
The King’s Fund is accepting nominations for the 2024 GSK IMPACT Awards to promote health and wellbeing in communities.
GSK and The King’s Fund actively encourage organisations to apply that are led by and support people from under-represented backgrounds, people from ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQ+ community.
Funding Information
- Up to ten winners receive £40,000, in unrestricted funding with the overall winner receiving an additional £10,000.
- Up to five runners-up receive £4,000 in unrestricted funding.
- Award winners are offered free training and development valued at an average of £9,500 for each organisation.
Benefits
- GSK IMPACT Award winners receive a whole host of benefits including:
- Free training and development
- Award winners are offered two free places on the GSK IMPACT Awards Development Programme. They are also invited to join the GSK IMPACT Awards Network, which connects past GSK IMPACT Award winners, both online and at meetings, allowing them to get and give support, share best practice and continue their professional development.
- Publicity, films and national recognition
- The awards provide organisations with an important quality mark. Winning organisations are visited by a photographer, have a professional film made about their work and receive support with press and publicity.
- Free training and development
The GSK IMPACT Awards Ceremony
- GSK IMPACT Award winners will be presented with their awards at a high-profile ceremony in London in May 2024, which provides an excellent opportunity to showcase work and raise profile.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be:
- A registered charity by the deadline 1 September 2023.
- The organisation must also have existed for a minimum of three years by this date. Community Interest Companies or any other organisations that are not registered charities are not eligible to apply.
- Located and registered in the UK.
- Targeting community health needs in the UK.
- Able to point to a track record of achievement in community health issues.
- Within the award’s income band, with total annual income between £150,000 and £3 million as shown in your most recent accounts. If your income is below £150,000 you may be eligible for the GSK Health Inequalities Programme (deadline 14 August 2023).
- Independently constituted from any national umbrella organisation.
- Organisations registered in the UK but working in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland can apply.
- Previous GSK IMPACT Award winners can re-apply five years after winning. If the organisation applied in 2018 (receiving the award in 2019), or before, it is eligible. Other shortlisted organisations can re-apply for any year.
- If the organisation was shortlisted for a GSK IMPACT Award and visited by an assessor, there will be a particular focus on achievements since the last application.
- In addition, the following organisations are not eligible:
- Organisations principally concerned with broad social welfare work. The organisation must be able to demonstrate its impact on the health of communities.
- Research bodies
- Advice agencies
- Organisations with paid staff who are also members of the Board of trustees.
- Note: Applicants will be asked to confirm that their Board of trustees has at least three unrelated trustees in place. If trustees or staffs are related, they will ask how any conflicts of interests are managed.
For more information, visit The King’s Fund.