NMC has won the prestigious GSK IMPACT Award run by the highly respected King’s Fund.

NMC was selected after rigorous judging and a gruelling assessment process. Matthew Lanham, NMC’s Chief Executive said, “To win this Award is one of the most significant achievements in NMC’s 25 year history”.

The 10 winning charities including NMC, were selected from over 350 charities nominated from across the UK. All were considered to be leading charities working in the Health and Social Care field, and crucially, to be making a demonstrable important positive impact on people’s lives.
The award comes at an important time for NMC. This major national endorsement of our work adds huge credibility when we seek funding - particularly as we seek funding to expand the Centre. It also gives us a new strongly confident voice when representing NMC.  Matthew Lanham continued, “I strongly believe that this recognition and endorsement is the most valuable part of the IMPACT.

Award prize”

The prize also included;

• £30,000 which is clearly  extremely welcome!
• A professionally made film about NMC.
• Over 500 Professionally taken  photographs of all aspects of our community in action
• 3 days training for Gill Storey and Matthew Lanham at the King’s Fund in London which    was inspiring and highly in formative, with all expenses  paid.
• Gill and Matthew joined a  national IMPACT Award  winners network of 100 leaders    of charities in the UK, who have previously won. NMC joins that small and elite  group.

The Awards night itself was quite an experience! Joining Matthew and Gill for the Celebration Event were Nigel Burgess (chairman of trustees), Dr Ros Quinlivan (Trustee), Dr Jonathan Griffiths (Chair of Vale Royal CCG), Baroness Celia Thomas of Winchester (who herself has MD, has spoken about NMC in Parliament), Ben (Operations and Finance Manager) and Lyndsey (Head of Fundraising). We were all extremely proud to see the NMC film for the very first time on the huge IMAX screen at the Science Museum. The audience of 350 included various dignitaries and funders. A great chance for us to showcase what we do to some extremely influential people from Department of Health, NHS and The National Lottery and many more!

We took the opportunity of having a big screen in the Meadow for the Lego Movie event to show the film and some of the great photos to as many of the NMC staff/user community as we could. We wanted to share a little of the Awards night spirit back here in Winsford!