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Organisations that were shortlisted for a GSK IMPACT Award between 2000 and 2009 were also given the opportunity to apply to the 2012 IMPACT Champions. HALE is one of three organisations awarded a gold champions award.

The GSK IMPACT Award overall winner in 2010, Health Action Local Engagement (HALE) has gone from strength to strength, promoting health and wellbeing for people living in the Bradford area. Using innovative approaches it delivered 175 different programmes last year and its reach has doubled, allowing more than 5,500 people to access their services.

The Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (WRSAC) is one of the two overall winners of the 2012 GSK IMPACT Awards.

Based in Cornwall, WRSAC provides support services, advocacy and counselling to women and girls who have experienced any form of sexual or domestic violence. Previously, there was no secure way to refer women from hospital, but now WRSAC works with health care providers to enable this. The charity also offers a 'pattern changing' programme to empower and enable women to make positive changes in their own lives.

Blackburn with Darwen Healthy Living is one of eight winners of the 2012 GSK IMPACT Awards.

The charity relies on residents and volunteers to help to deliver its messages on healthy eating, health awareness and physical activity. With services including a community gym on a bus, a food co-operative and cervical and breast screening for South Asian women, it builds the knowledge and skills of local people to enable them to help themselves.

Beacon Counselling is one of eight winners of the 2012 GSK IMPACT Awards.

Beacon Counselling improves the lives of people affected by mental or emotional distress by providing counselling and related services. Its innovative 'Confidence' and 'Stressbuster' programmes promote early intervention and help a wide range of people in Stockport and its surrounding areas.