CASH FOR NIGHTSAFE

Added : ( Wed Feb 14 2001 )

CASH FOR NIGHTSAFE

A Blackburn charity set up to help the homeless, Nightsafe, has won a £1,000 award as part of GlaxoSmithKline’s IMPACT Awards Scheme for 2001.

Nightsafe aims to help young homeless people aged 16–24 years old. Its day centre, Fusebox, provides a base for the increasing number of homeless and offers daily educational activities on all life-skills and health issues.

Nightsafe also offers a crisis night shelter, longer-term support and one bedroom flats. Training is given to help people make the transition from dependence to independent living.

Says Paula Kaniuk, Nightsafe Manager: "We’re delighted to have won this prestigious award, not only does it give us a cash boost but reinforces us as being one of the leading local homeless charities."

Margaret Bailey, Manager of GlaxoSmithKline’s European Community Partnership Programme said: "We were impressed by Nightsafe’s supportive and encouraging role toward young people and their situations.
Their work is innovative, fun and last year helped over 400 young people."

Working in partnership with the King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity, the GlaxoSmithKline Impact Awards are designed to recognise and promote the work of voluntary organisations in the demanding area of community healthcare. In this, the fourth year of the programme, ten awards of £25,000 and ten awards of £1,000 have been made to small and medium sized registered charities in the UK.

GlaxoSmithKline - one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies - is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. For company information visit GlaxoSmithKline on the World Wide Web at http://www.gsk.com

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Issued by Prowse & Company Ltd on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline

For further information contact:
Sue Wilkins or Peter Colegate, Prowse & Co, 01372 363386
Paula Kaniuk, Nightsafe Manager, 01254 587687

News release is available online at www.prowse.co.uk/newsf.html

13 February 2001
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