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The GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards winners 2007

The overall winner in 2007 is ERIC (Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence). ERIC is a Bristol based organisation that works nationally to reduce the suffering caused to young people by bedwetting and other problems of bladder and bowel control. Founded in 1987, it provides information and support to young people, their families and health professionals and operates a weekday telephone helpline. 

At least three quarters of a million young people experience continence difficulties, yet only one in three families currently come forward for help. This issue is very sensitive and can lead to young people being teased or bullied at school and excluded from social activities.

Other 2007 winners were:

Cornerhouse –Hull – supports and enables people living in Hull and East Riding to make informed choices and reduce the stigma associated with HIV.  

Escape Family Support - Northumberland – provides a range of services for drug and alcohol misusers and their families and carers.

Hounslow Youth Counselling Service - West London – provides a free counselling service to people under the age of 26 who live, work or study in the London Borough of Hounslow.  

Hull Churches Home From Hospital Service – Hull - provides free volunteer support to elderly people returning home from hospital including shopping, accessing welfare benefits to prescription delivery and befriending.

SOLVE IT – Kettering, Northamptonshire - provides a service for young people, adults and professionals who work with young people, to raise awareness about the consequences of solvent and volatile substance abuse.

Say Women – Glasgow – aims to support young women who are homeless and survivors of childhood sexual abuse and/or rape.

Southampton Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service – aims to improve the lives of people who have suffered rape/sexual abuse.  

The Metro Centre - Greenwich, London – offers mental health work, HIV prevention and sexual health services to lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and those questioning their sexuality.

West Cumbria Hospice at Home - Cumbria – provides end of life care for patients’ in their own homes.  

Further information about the work of this year's winning organisations can be found in the 2007 IMPACT Awards Brochure (PDF 1.6Mb).

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