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CIPR announces 2025 Excellence Awards winners

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has honoured the industry’s finest campaigns, teams, and professionals at its 41st annual Excellence Awards, with four agencies and teams each securing double wins at the prestigious ceremony. Tin Man, Mischief, Stripe Communications, and Virgin Media 02 were tied for the most prolific organisations on the evening, each claiming two awards as over 400 PR and comms professionals joined magician and presenter, Ben Hanlin, at the Royal Lancaster London to celebrate the best in work in PR over the last 12 months. The…

OCS Foundation Relaunches with Mission to Empower Children and Young People

Stuart Mitchell

OCS are thrilled to announce the relaunch of the OCS Foundation. The OCS Foundation is an independent grant-giving and fundraising charity. We’re relaunching with a focus on creating opportunities for children and young people facing disadvantage across the UK and Ireland. OCS initially established the Foundation in 2014, this relaunch comes as a result of the merger in 2023. Since 2014, the Foundation has built a legacy of addressing poverty by investing in socially and economically disadvantaged community members. In 2023, we piloted our pioneering ‘People into Work’ programme. Presently,…

Nearly half of Brits (44%) would struggle to pay for basic necessities within a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals

Stuart Mitchell

44% of Brits report they would find it difficult to pay for basic necessities such as housing, food and utilities within just a single month of unexpectedly losing their income, a new Big Issue YouGov poll[1] has found. That figure rises to 48% for adults under 50. The research reveals sweeping regional differences in the precariousness of people’s personal financial situation across the UK, with more than half (54%) of people in Wales and 49% of Londoners saying they’d find it difficult to pay for these necessities within the month…

UK teachers spend £25 a month of their own money feeding hungry pupils

Stuart Mitchell

16 per cent of teachers report regularly parting with their own money to buy food or snacks for kids, while over a quarter (27 per cent) have given away food they personally brought in for their own snacks or meals. A new report launched today, Hungry to Learn: The impact of morning hunger on our schoolchildren, reveals the extreme lengths teachers are going to feed hungry children at school; a sign of the increased pressures schools and families are facing when it comes to food poverty. The report by Kellogg’s…

CIPR unveils 2025 Excellence Awards shortlist

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations has announced the shortlist for its 41st Excellence Awards which recognises outstanding achievement in PR and communications practice. 125 organisations and public relations professionals will showcase the impact of their work on business and society across 30 hotly contested categories in the UK’s premier public relations awards ceremony. Read the full shortlist below. Tickets are now available to purchase for the live award ceremony on Wednesday 2 July at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London where the winners will be announced.   The Excellence…