Nearly 300 Gold and Silver Awards were won at this year’s CIPR regional PRide Awards. PR practitioners from across the country joined presenters Viv Groskop and Jonny Dymond as they hosted nine ceremonies over three days to celebrate the industry’s outstanding work across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and six English regions.
There were multiple awards won across the regions for agencies including in Wales where Equinox (seven awards), Golley Slater (six), and Jamjar (six) were the big winners. Brand agency, Smarts, picked up an incredible eight awards for their work across Scotland and Northern Ireland including two gold awards for their ‘Don’t Be That Guy’ campaign for Police Scotland.
Evergreen PR was the big winner in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region taking home six awards. The North West’s Catapult PR took away five awards including the gold award for Independent PR Practitioner of the Year for Jane Hunt. In the North East, McBryde & Co won five awards including awards for best public sector campaign and best healthcare campaign for their work with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They also won ‘Small PR Consultancy of the Year’.
Elsewhere, Greater Manchester Combined Authority won five awards (North West) while there were wins for organisations including Greater Anglia (Anglia, Thames and Chiltern), the League Against Cruel Sports (Scotland), Durham University (North East), and Companies House (Wales). Local government winners included Sunderland City Council (North East) and Norfolk County Council (Anglia, Thames and Chiltern) and the NHS saw wins for South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Anglia, Thames and Chiltern), University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Midlands), and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust and Stand (North East).
The winners of the Awards for Outstanding Young Communicator, Independent PR Practitioner, In-house PR Team, Small PR Consultancy, and PR Consultancy of the Year are listed below. For a full list of winners please visit the CIPR PRide Awards website.
It has been wonderful to see the hard work of those working across the PR industry recognised through the CIPR PRide Awards at our nine celebration events. The array of campaigns featured, demonstrates the diversity of practice delivered through public relations and how we, as professionals, act as the communications bridge to help organisations translate their mission into impact which affects our everyday lives.
Whilst I applaud all campaigns, organisations, and people who achieved Gold and Silver PRide Award accolades, as a PR professional I know that there’s an awful lot of exceptional PR practice that happens as part of the everyday doing of the job, which in its own right shouldn’t go unrecognised. So as well as celebrating all finalists and winners, I hope the PRide Awards also acted as a beacon in each of our nine PRide communities to shine the spotlight on all PR professionals who take pride in their own work to maintain high standards, ethical communications practice and commitment to professional development.
ANGLIA, THAMES AND CHILTERN
Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
- Gold winner: Ellie Moore – Reading Borough Council
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Satsuma Group
- Silver winner: aim Content Marketing
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: PLMR | Genesis
- Silver winner: Playtime PR
CYMRU WALES
Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
Gold winner:
- Calhan Behrendt ACIPR – Outwrite Pr
In-House PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: Companies House
- Silver winner: The Royal Mint
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Outwrite PR
- Silver winner: Perago
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Equinox
- Silver winner: Cowshed
MIDLANDS
Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
- Gold winner: Sara-Anne Mills-Bricknell MCIPR – See Media
- Silver winner: Leah Elston-Thompson MCIPR – Stone Junction
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
- Gold winner: Alison Gallagher-Hughes Chart.PR, MCIPR – Tillymint Communications
- Silver winner: George Oliver – 1284
Small PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: See Media
- Silver winner: R&Co Communications
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: The Marketing Pod (We Grow Ideas Ltd)
- Silver winner: WPR
NORTH EAST
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
- Gold winner: Matthew Moore MCIPR – Matthew Moore Consulting Ltd
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: McBryde and Co
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Karol Marketing
- Silver winner: Stand
NORTH WEST
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
- Gold winner: Jane Hunt MCIPR – Catapult PR
In-House PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Font Communications
- Silver winner: Scoop
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Grayling Communications Ltd
- Silver winner: Petal&Co.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
- Gold winner: Ciaran Mullan MCIPR – Rumour Mill Creative Communications
- Silver winner: Jenna Gardiner ACIPR – Brown O’Connor Communications
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
- Gold winner: Maurica Mackle Chart.PR, Dip CIPR, FCIPR – Mackle Communications
- Silver winner: Sonya Cassidy FCIPR – Sonya Cassidy PR Limited
In-House PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: The Consumer Council
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: RNN Communications
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: LK Communications
- Silver winner: Smarts
SCOTLAND
Hamp Hamilton Award for Scotland’s Outstanding Young Communicator
- Gold winner: Craig Ritchie – Morrison Media
In-House PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: The University of Edinburgh
- Silver winner: Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Beeline PR
- Silver winner: Morrison Media
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Weber Shandwick
- Silver winner: 3×1 Group
SOUTH OF ENGLAND AND CHANNEL ISLANDS
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
- Gold winner: Ben Veal MCIPR – Second Mountain Comms
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: ADPR
- Silver winner: Black Vanilla
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Jargon PR
- Silver winner: HIGHLIGHT PR
YORKSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE
In-House PR Team of the Year
- Gold winner: Irwin Mitchell
- Silver winner: Skipton Building Society
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Evergreen PR
- Silver winner: Faith PR
PR Consultancy of the Year
- Gold winner: Evergreen PR
- Silver winner: Prohibition PR
