Charitable investments

We focus our charitable investments on organisations that share our purpose: to unite science, talent and technology to get ahead of disease together. ​

We contribute both funding and expertise to partners that support accessible STEM education and comprehensive community health activities across the UK and the US to create measurable, lasting benefits in the places where we live and work. 

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Our UK charitable investments

GSK IMPACT Awards

Since 1997, we’ve given over £8.9 million to more than 560 community healthcare charities across the UK. Winning charities receive £40,000 in unrestricted funds and are invited to take part in the GSK IMPACT Awards Development Programme and Network. In 2027, we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the GSK IMPACT Awards. ​

The GSK IMPACT Awards celebrate charities that make a real difference to health and wellbeing throughout the UK. Run in partnership with The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity, these awards recognise and support small to medium sized charities that are at least three years old with annual income between £150,000 and £3 million.  ​

The GSK IMPACT Awards assess applicants across six key areas: innovation in tackling healthcare access and delivery; strong management and effective use of resources; collaborative partnership working and willingness to share learning; clear, measurable achievements and impact; a community-focused approach that engages users; and a clear focus on targeting those most in need.  

GSK IMPACT Awards Development Programme and Network ​

Winners are invited to participate in a three-day training and development programme with The King’s Fund and are also encouraged to join the GSK IMPACT Awards Network, which provide ongoing support and connect past winners together. The programme is designed to encourage members to work with each other, grow together, and share best practices both online and at face-to-face meetings to promote their continued success and growth. ​

 

Learn more about the GSK IMPACT Awards

 

  • Age UK Norwich - supporting older people to stay healthier for longer through health coaching, befriending, clubs, trips and advocacy work.
  • Can-Survive UK - a Manchester-based charity supporting culturally diverse communities living with and beyond cancer.
  • Colostomy UK - a national charity supporting people living with a stoma through offering practical help, raising awareness and fighting the stigma so no one faces life with a stoma alone.
  • Create Strength Group - supporting people to recover from substance misuse in Bradford, improving health and wellbeing, preventing relapse, and developing resilience, life skills and productive pathways that enable individuals to thrive.
  • Empowerment Charity Lancashire - serving disadvantaged communities in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, empowering local people to bring about change to their health and wellbeing.
  • Encompass Southwest - tackling rural homelessness, poverty and health inequalities in Southwest England through providing trauma informed and person-centred support.
  • The Green House - working to break the silence, stigma and shame of child sexual abuse, and through the power of innovation help families to rebuild their lives after abuse.
  • Happy Baby Community - transforms lives for pregnant women and new mothers who have fled war, trafficking and violence to seek safety for themselves and their babies, by creating a sanctuary across Greater London and the south east where they and their babies can truly thrive.
  • The Rainbow Project - an LGBTQIA+ charity changing lives for LGBTQIA+ people and their families in Northern Ireland through tailored health and wellbeing services that mitigate the impact of discrimination, as well as training, campaigning and policy work to eliminate its root causes.
  • Rape and Sexual Abuse Service Highland - providing specialist support and advocacy for anyone affected by sexual violence across the Scottish Highlands.

2026 Runner’s Up: Elder Tree, GASPED, Lighthouse Ireland, Murray's Initiative, Teens Unite Fighting Cancer.

Learn more about our 2025 GSK IMPACT Award winners

15 May 2025

GSK Community Health programme

The GSK Community Health programme is an annual programme that recognises very small charities across the UK that are working closely within their communities to tackle health inequalities. It is designed to run alongside the GSK IMPACT Awards and support the next generation of award winners. We know from our long history with the GSK IMPACT Awards that the combination of funding and leadership support can help a charity realise its ambitions. The GSK Community Health programme is open to registered charities that are at least a year old, located and working in the UK with a total annual income between £20,000 and £150,000. Up to 15 charities will receive up to £10,000 unrestricted funding, plus access to a training and development leadership programme. ​

 

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Supporting the next generation of innovators ​

Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers support economic mobility and drive innovation. Through our charitable investments, we increase young people’s value of and confidence in doing science and pursuing STEM careers.  The community programmes that we support increase access to exciting STEM education that is culturally relevant, connected to real careers and builds science identity. ​

In 2023, we launched our £6m, 10-year UK STEM access programme, designed to inspire and support the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians, including those from backgrounds that are under-represented in these specialist careers in the UK. ​

Working with Stemettes, STEM Learning, the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE), Covent Garden Dragon Hall Trust , Royal Society of Chemistry and Youth Careers Collective (formerly Spark!), we collaborate to drive nationwide STEM mentoring for at least 4,000 11 to 25-year-olds in the UK over the next three years. 

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UK charities we partner with

We are committed to improving and promoting positive health and wellbeing across the UK through charity partnerships and the exceptional work they do within their communities.

US charitable investments

Across the US, we invest our charitable funds with nonprofit organisations that are doing good for people in need in the communities where we live and work. Visit our US website to learn more.

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