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Corporate and Business Communications Campaign
  • Hard Numbers
    Highspot - State of Sales and Marketing Alignment
  • Hood & Woolf Ltd
    Celebrating a challenged hospital's improvement journey
  • Man Bites Dog
    Sustainable Cities Index 2022: Prosperity Beyond Profit
  • Mischief (MHP Group)
    Three Black Friday
  • Rooster PR
    Zeus: The ambassador for sustainable freight
  • Sage Group PLC
    Champion of SMBs
  • Virgin Media with Hope&Glory, Missive and Broadcast Revolution
    Creating a National Databank
  • Zeno London
    Zoom Towns

 

Internal Communications or Employee Engagement Campaign
  • AstraZeneca
    Crowdsourcing a Bold Ambition for 2030 and beyond
  • Enthuse Communications
    Be your best
  • KPMG
    KPMG Values Week
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Helping to reshape our organisation
  • Sellafield Ltd
    The Last Days of Magnox reprocessing - documentary
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Introducing Sony Interactive Entertainment's new Values
  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
    Staff Engagement Campaign for Cost of Living
  • Wincanton
    Wincanton: It's OK not to be OK

 

Consumer Relations Campaign
  • Launch
    Hotel Hyundai
  • Lounge Group
    A Summer of Preloved Tales
  • Ready10
    McDonald’s Royal Makeover
  • Red Consultancy
    Love at first bite babes: Launching the McCrispy
  • Taylor Herring
    Crouchy Conducts the Classics
  • Taylor Herring & Mars Wrigley
    The No-Bounty Celebrations Tub
  • The Pharm/WPP & No7 Beauty Company
    The Dermatologist comes to the High Street

 

Public Sector Campaign
  • Companies House
    Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
  • Cowshed
    It Starts in School
  • Influential & Champs Public Health Collaborative
    Simple Things Still Mean A Lot
  • London Borough of Lewisham
    Discover Lewisham this Summer
  • Met Office
    Communicating Extreme Heat in Summer 2022
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
    #OUCH Bye Bye UTI Campaign
  • Sussex Police and Surrey Police
    Drink Driving - Together We Can Stop It
  • UKAEA
    Fusion is coming: JET  World Record Result

 

Social Purpose Campaign
  • Frank PR
    Lewis Pugh's Red Sea Swim
  • Good Relations
    The All Inclusive Photo Project
  • Grayling
    Chopstick Goals with YO!
  • Hanover Communications
    WalkSafe+: A responsible partnership in the night-time economy
  • Mischief (MHP Group)
    He's Coming Home
  • Pitch Marketing Group
    Dennis the Menace gets his first smartphone
  • Tin Man
    The Most Inclusive Airline in the Skies
  • Virgin Media with Hope&Glory, Missive and Broadcast Revolution
    Creating a National Databank

 

Public Affairs Campaign
  • BB Partners
    Rebuild General Practice
  • BCW
    Grundfos: From Energy Crisis to Energy Efficiency
  • Kingston University
    Kingston University - Future Skills Campaign
  • Malaria No More UK
    SECURING UK LEADERSHIP IN ENDING MALARIA
  • Martis Media
    Harper's Law Campaign
  • Norwich Research Park
    Putting science in Norwich on the map
  • The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
    Restore Rehab Service and Rehab Space
  • WA Communications
    Saving the UK's Cash Infrastructure

 

Not-for-Profit Campaign
  • Cowshed
    When your world stops. We’re There.
  • Mischief (MHP Group)
    He's Coming Home
  • Ready10
    Project Light: Bringing 54 Ukrainian orphans to safety
  • Red Consultancy
    #NotComingHome
  • TEAM LEWIS FOUNDATION
    Supporting the Magic of Music
  • Tin Man
    Open Doors to Guide Dogs
  • Woodrow
    Rwanda Deportations: fighting for asylum seekers' rights

 

Healthcare &/or Well Being Campaign
  • BCW
    Together Against RSV
  • Evergreen PR
    Sound of Science: A Tinnitus Biobank
  • markettiers and Prostate Cancer UK
    Find the 14,000 men
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
    #OUCH Bye Bye UTI Campaign
  • South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS)
    Defibrillators: A deadly game of hide and seek
  • Third City and Zurich Insurance
    Fertility in the Workplace
  • Virgin Media O2, British Heart Foundation, Hope & Glory and Broadcast Revolution
    Virgin Media O2 x British Heart Foundation
  • West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
    Check In With Your Mate

 

Integrated Campaign
  • Grayling
    Bring Your Own Gran with YO!
  • Loughborough University
    Loughborough at the Commonwealth Games
  • Mischief (MHP Group)
    He's Coming Home
  • Nestle
    Quality Street - behind the brand
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
    #DoubleYourDefences Flu and COVID-19 Joint Vaccination Campaign
  • Ready10
    Ready10 x McDonald’s: One’s Lovin’ It
  • Taylor Herring
    Crouchy Conducts the Classics
  • The ABI and PLSA
    Pension Attention

 

Luxury and Lifestyle Campaign
  • Battersea Power Station Development Company
    Battersea Power Station
  • Carousel
    The Art of Promoting 'The Art of Banksy'
  • Catapult PR
    No. 1 Topiary Garden
  • Pangolin
    Beefeater Gin - Key To The Jewel

 

Environmental Campaign
  • Brands2Life
    Appetite for Action - Creating Resilient Supply Chains
  • Fugu
    #WorldBankWorldProblems: Campaigning for a sustainable energy future
  • Hubbub and Barley Communications
    Eat Your Pumpkin
  • License to PR
    Peppa Pig make waves for World Ocean Day
  • Man Bites Dog
    Aquanomics
  • Man Bites Dog
    Sustainable Cities Index 2022: Prosperity Beyond Profit
  • Pelican Communications
    Fishtek Marine & The Scallop Disco
  • Red Consultancy
    Get Dirty to Save Earth’s Skin

 

Low Budget Campaign
  • Energy PR
    Sport's Biggest Name Influencers
  • Evergreen PR
    Sound of Science: A Tinnitus Biobank
  • Hard Numbers
    National Broadband - Better Connected in Space
  • Hunt & Gather
    Coral Reef Gardener
  • Mindfully Wired Communications
    Fortune favours the bold: Influencing sustainable tuna policy
  • North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
    #OUCH Bye Bye UTI Campaign
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    No Excuses - tackling abuse in the NHS
  • Tillymint Communications
    Karnlea - from kitchen table to cupboard staple

 

STEM Campaign
  • GCHQ
    Using GCHQ's puzzle power to inspire STEM studies
  • Gerard Kelly & Partners
    LIMIT LESS - PHYSICS IS FOR EVERYONE
  • JComms
    NI Science Festival: Putting the ‘A’ in STEM
  • JFG Communications
    Furrer+Frey Decarbonisation and Electrification of Freight Terminals
  • Liberty Communications
    Becoming the people’s password manager
  • UKAEA
    Fusion is coming: JET World Record Result
  • Virgin Media with Hope&Glory, Missive and Broadcast Revolution
    Creating a National Databank
  • Royal Society of Chemistry & Weber Shandwick
    Broadening Horizons in the chemical sciences

 

Sport or Entertainment Campaign
  • Brands2Life
    Follow In Her Footsteps (UEFA Women’s EURO 2022)
  • Grayling
    Levelling the playing field for women
  • MHP Group (Mischief)
    Play Makes Anything Possible
  • Mischief (MHP Group)
    The Hundred Minecraft
  • Pangolin
    Pepsi Nutmeg Royale
  • Taylor Herring
    Crouchy Conducts the Classics
  • Third City and Starling Bank
    Make Women's Football Equal
  • University of Stirling
    Recruiting the 12th man: campaign drives 1,000 fans to historic match

 

Travel, Transport, or Tourism Campaign
  • Catapult PR
    No. 1 Topiary Garden
  • Good Relations
    The All Inclusive Photo Project
  • Skyscanner
    Travel Trends 2023
  • Sunny Side Up
    Be Yourself
  • Tin Man
    The Most Inclusive Airline in the Skies
  • TUI UK
    Find Your Happy with TUI BLUE
  • VisitScotland
    Scotland’s Witch Trail
  • Words + Pixels
    Lime launches world-first Helmet Hair Salon

 

Education Campaign
  • Cowshed
    It Starts in School
  • Grayling
    Fraudulese
  • iNHouse Communications and Northumbria University
    Becoming University of the Year
  • Kingston University
    Kingston University - Future Skills Campaign
  • KPMG UK
    National Numeracy Day 2022
  • Taylor Herring
    NatWest Scammer House of Horrors
  • UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering
    Tomorrow's Home: showcasing the future of home technology
  • Universities UK International (with Cormack Consulting Group and Waterfall)
    The #TwinForHope Campaign

 

Best use of SEO
  • Ready10
    VoucherCodes On Tap: Driving high-quality backlinks

 

Best Use of Media Relations
  • Brands2Life
    Follow In Her Footsteps (UEFA Women’s EURO 2022)
  • Carousel
    The Art of promoting 'The Art of Banksy'
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
    World-first use of 'base editing'
  • Lexington & Oxford University Press 
    Oxford Word of the Year: The People’s Choice
  • Taylor Herring & Mars Wrigley
    The No-Bounty Celebrations Tub
  • Tin Man
    The Most Inclusive Airline in the Skies
  • UKAEA
    Fusion is coming: JET World Record Result
  • Zeno London
    Hidden Talent

 

Best Channel Delivery
  • Headland Consultancy
    The Body Shop - Best Channel Delivery
  • KPMG UK
    KPMG 'Pull Up a Chair' podcast
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
    Our People Podcast
  • spottydog communications
    #ChewsJoy with Earth Animal UK
  • Sunny Side Up
    Black is the new blue
  • TEAM LEWIS
    An Interactive Platform Brings PETRONAS Syntium to Life
  • Tin Man
    Getting the Nation Talking... In BSL
  • Zeno London
    OnlyNans

 

Best Long-term campaign
  • Evergreen PR
    Sound of Science: A Tinnitus Biobank
  • Fareham Borough Council
    Live Love Local Fareham
  • iNHouse Communications
    UK Spirits Alliance
  • Lloyds Banking Group Commercial Banking and Citypress
    By the side of business
  • Man Bites Dog
    Sustainable Cities Index 2022: Prosperity Beyond Profit
  • Wyatt International
    Challenge 2025: Supporting change by transforming outdoor power.
  • Zeno London
    Hidden Talent

 

Best Use of Content
  • Brands2Life
    United for Financial Health: Getting GenZ financially fit!
  • Cowshed
    When your world stops. We’re There.
  • Man Bites Dog
    The Pathway to Inclusive Investment
  • Oxfordshire County Council
    Our strength comes from you
  • Taylor Herring
    Crouchy Conducts the Classics
  • The ABI and PLSA
    Pension Attention
  • University of Bath
    Research with Impact
  • Zeno London
    OnlyNans

 

Best Event 
  • Met Office
    Met Office COP27 Webinar Series
  • MHP Group (Mischief)
    Big to Bigger… Relaunching the new-look LEGO® Store
  • Pangolin
    Beefeater Gin - Key To The Jewel
  • Perago
    Bringing us together - Digital in Wales event
  • Sunny Side Up
    Black is the new blue
  • The Gambling Commission
    Colleague conference - Introducing the Commission Story
  • Universities UK International
    UK-Ukraine university twinning conference

 

Best long-term client care
  • Alfred
    Alfred x Oatly: Best long-term client care
  • Cowshed
    Cowshed and National Adoption Service achieving more together
  • spottydog communications
    Ten years of serving up PR for M&B

 

Issues, Crisis, or Reputation Management
  • Aurrera Communications
    Against the clock: Communicating an investment case
  • Cadent Gas Ltd
    Stannington Water Ingress - a co-ordinated response
  • Citypress x Brabners
    Wagatha Christie: Winning the ‘wag war’ 
  • King's College London
    Ukraine Explained: Shaping informed coverage and conversations
  • Lounge Group
    Help Us Find You!
  • Met Office
    Linking Weather and Climate through Extreme Heat
  • Pic PR
    Pic PR and Coast & Country Hotel Collection
  • Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
    Operation London Bridge in Windsor.

 

Best Publication
  • Durham University
    Dialogue Magazine
  • On The Tools
    The Women On The Tools White Paper
  • Pitch Marketing Group
    Dennis the Menace gets his first smartphone
  • Satsuma Group
    The Hard Hat - a communications crowning glory
  • The Glenmorangie Company
    Spirited Magazine Issue 2
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
    Best Publication: Our Journal
  • Tillymint Communications
    PIF Matters

 

Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
  • Charlotte Wilkins
    Birketts LLP
  • David Amos
    iseepr

 

Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
  • 1284
  • Ben Veal Chart.PR MCIPR – Second Mountain Comms
  • Karen Mignon Communications Ltd
  • Mackle Communications
  • Olivia Rickman Communications
  • Onboard PR
  • Paul Sutton Ltd
  • Tillymint Communications

 

In-House PR Team of the Year
  • Battersea Power Station Development Company
  • British Heart Foundation
  • Companies House
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT)
  • Wheatley Group
  • Yorkshire Building Society

 

Specialist PR Consultancy of the Year
  • Battenhall
  • HN Communications
  • Indigo Pearl
  • iseepr
  • Man Bites Dog
  • Playtime PR
  • Scala
  • Words + Pixels

 

New PR Consultancy of the Year
  • Altitude
  • Satsuma Group

 

Small PR Consultancy of the Year
  • Aver PR
  • Fanclub PR
  • Orchard
  • Pier
  • Red Lion PR
  • Satsuma Group
  • Viva PR

 

PR Consultancy of the Year
  • Aspectus Group
  • Brands2Life
  • Citypress
  • Pangolin
  • Ready10
  • Sunny Side Up
  • Tin Man
  • WA Communications
 
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