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Training and development for award winners

GSK IMPACT Award winners will be offered two free places on the GSK IMPACT Awards Development Programme and are then invited to join the GSK IMPACT Awards Network, which connects past award winners, both online and at meetings.

The Development Programme and Network, valued at an average of £13,500 for each organisation, is funded by GSK and delivered by The King's Fund.

What our 2025 winners said about winning

GSK IMPACT Awards Development Programme

The three-day programme helps winners develop their organisations and their leaders. Informed by the rigorous assessment process for the awards, it is tailored to the needs of each year’s award winners. Recent programme topics included:

  • demonstrating your organisation’s value and impact

  • having difficult conversations and HR

  • why some solutions don’t stick – working with resistance and polarities

  • financial management and governance

  • leadership action learning sets

  • developing authority and personal impact

  • AI and digital innovation

  • briefing from The King’s Fund’s Policy Team

Feedback on the Development Programme

Previous participants commented on the excellent training and facilitation, its relevance to their work, how it motivated them and the unique value of working with other award-winning organisations facing similar challenges. These are comments from some of our 2024 winners:

‘It was such a unique and incredible experience – one I will never forget and just wish we could do it all again!’

‘All the sessions were excellent and delivered by highly skilled staff.’

‘There were so many things that I feel I can use and implement, both in terms of exercises and also more reflective things. It gave me a lot of inspiration and a bit of a boost in terms of my role within my charity.’

‘I really found the programme beneficial, especially having time out to reflect and meet with other like-minded people.’

‘It is amazing that this is also just the start of a longer relationship and benefits.’

GSK IMPACT Awards Network

The GSK IMPACT Awards Network is a unique learning network that supports health and wellbeing charities to:

  • develop their leaders on an ongoing basis, providing participants with the skills to respond to the challenges of their environment

  • share experiences and expertise

  • build the recognition of their significant and vital contribution to the health and social care system.

The Network started as a small group in 2012 and now has over 215 members representing over 130 award-winning charities from across the UK. The whole programme is driven by participants’ ideas and experience, with the facilitation led by a dedicated team of experts at The King’s Fund.

'Without fail I leave Network meetings with both great ideas for things I can change in my charity, and the motivation to do something about them. There really is nothing quite like it, since the ideas are not generated top down, management consultancy style, but come from real work insights from other charities that have been road tested.’

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GSK IMPACT Awards

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