A number of community healthcare charities have been recognised with a total of &pound300,000 at the GlaxoSmithKline Impact awards.
The prizes were give out in association with The King’s Fund and saw 20 organisations win &pound25,000, &pound5,000 or &pound3,000. Tyneside youth support charity Streetwise was the overall winner at the London event, taking a &pound25,000 first prize and an extra &pound10,000 to aid sexual and mental health schemes, as well as programmes tackling alcohol and drugs misuse in the north-east. Streetwise project manager Heidi Douglas stated: “These awards are an incredible acknowledgment and validation of the pioneering work we undertake, and an opportunity for us to look back into our services and improve on what we do.” “Being a small organisation in the north-east we sometimes feel overshadowed by national projects,” she added.
Other winning organisations include eating disorder charity Beat, chromosome disorder support group Unique and Infertility Network UK.