Celebrating Success Our partners Keighley Healthy Living and 'Rethinking Pain' Win Prestigious GSK Impact Award!

I am thrilled to share the exciting news that Keighley Healthy Living has just landed the prestigious GSK Impact Award for their amazing work in reducing social isolation and boosting both physical and mental wellbeing in the community. Read about it in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus here.

The GSK Impact Awards, in partnership with The King’s Fund, have been recognizing top health charities since 1997. Keighley Healthy Living is one of the ten winners this year from a record number of entries – GSK Impact Award announcement here.

Formed in 2000, Keighley Healthy Living works with various community groups, including refugee and asylum support groups, making a real difference through culturally-adapted activities and education.

Their Rethinking Pain service, which provides community-based pain support, benefitted over 1,700 people last year, with over 450 professionals attending their education workshops. 'Rethinking Pain' has been a game-changer, helping people manage long-term pain, cutting GP visits by 6%, and saving the NHS nearly £200,000 last year. Check out their fantastic website here.

We are about to celebrate our second anniversary working with 'Rethinking Pain.' Our workstream is led by Dr. Kate Thompson and includes Ursula Philpot, Ghazala Tabasam, and James Woodall. We have a variety of work packages on the go, including developing their systems change model for integrating the voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector with the NHS and evaluating their innovative culturally-adapted pain education and healthy Islam workshops. I'll give an update on our progress in a subsequent blog – you can read our previous article here if you can’t wait.