HALE - Health Action Local Engagement

Real Lives: Real Impact

On Thursday 5th July we will be hosting a Breakfast Seminar at Yo Yo's Bar and Restaurant in Shipley.

Starting at 8.30am, with breakfast included, it promises to be an interactive and powerful morning, which will include:

keynote speech from Roland Doven. Roland is a Consultant to Grant-Makers whose clients have included The Kings Fund/GSK, for whom he has acted as an IMPACT Award assessor. He is also a board member of The Big Lottery Fund.
4 sessions where some of our patients/clients will tell you about how our work has benefited their health and their lives
the latest facts and figures around how HALE is working with local NHS and community providers to dramatically improve the health and well being of local people.

The event will finish at around 10.20am, and will be followed by HALE's AGM, then a further workshop with Roland. This section of the event is expected to finish at 12 noon.

To confirm your attendance please click here.

2012 IMPACT Champions Award

We are really excited to have been awarded an IMPACT Champions Award! The award is run by GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the Kings Fund, so is really valuable recognition from prestigious organisations.

The Champions Award was open to organisations who were shortlisted for an IMPACT Award between 2000 and 2009, and has being awarded to charities who have demonstrated their impact in improving health in their community since winning the original award.

After being shortlisted amongst the top 8 from over 100 organisations and we were over the moon to learn we'd been chosen as one of 3 Gold award winners!

This really is BIG news for HALE as we have only had 12 months to demonstrate our impact, whereas other charities in the running have had up to 10 years!

We'll be attending the award ceremony in London in May to receive our prize of £35,000 and attend the training that comes with the prize package.

2010 IMPACT Award

Our win at the 2010 GSK IMPACT Awards was a very proud moment for HALE, and valuable recognition of the work that we do and the impact we have on local people's health.

The awards are run by GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the Kings Fund. After being shortlisted from over 350 charities throughout the UK as one of 10 prize winners, HALE was announced as the overall winner for 2010!

The judges made the following comments:

“HALE supports people of all ages in its local community in innovative ways, reaching out to those who often don’t use traditional health services. By empowering the groups it works with to become self-sufficient, HALE is leaving a lasting legacy. It is a worthy winner.”

- Sir Cyril Chantler, Chairman, The King’s Fund

“The HALE Project is a vibrant group with strong community involvement. The organisation has a clear objective to reduce health inequalities and has found creative ways to engage local people while staying aligned to NHS priorities. HALE really reflects all the characteristics of a GSK IMPACT Award winner. "

- Dr Justine Frain, Chair, IMPACT Judging Panel, GlaxoSmithKline

2009 Inspiration Award

In March 2009 HALE received the Inspiration Award for our ‘work with luncheon clubs to provide home made meals for older people’.

The Inspiration Award was given out by Bradford and Airedale NHS, and its purpose was: to support good ideas, to develop new ways of working and to encourage creative thinking to improve services for patients and customers. HALE won the award in the Improvement in Adult Services category.

Having identified a health need amongst older service users who attended luncheon clubs, we piloted a programme which was cost effective, engaged older people in cooking and ensured that the food’s goodness was maintained during cooking and before eating.

The success of this pilot, and winning the award meant that HALE was able to employ a Nutrition Worker to roll out a programme of nutrition advice and support for older people at four more luncheon clubs in the Shipley and Bingley area.

PQASSO Accredited Charity

PQASSO stands for Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations, and is the most widely used quality assurance system within the voluntary and community sector.

We have been working towards PQASSO and are delighted to have achieved Level 1. This means we have been externally assessed against the PQASSO standards.

Next stop Level 2!