Media Awards: CIPR Scotland PRide Awards 2016

SOME of the best-known names in Scottish public relations were recognised last night at the PRide Awards 2016, run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

And among the winners at the black tie event, held at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms, were VisitScotland (Internal Communications Campaign, Consumer Relations Campaign, Public Sector Team of the Year and Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team), Holyrood PR (Corporate and Business Communications Campaign and Low Budget Campaign) and Weber Shandwick (Healthcare Campaign, Best Use of Media Relations, Best Use of Photography or Design and Young Communicator of the Year).

The full list of winners, runners-up and finalists reads, as follows:

Corporate and Business Communications Campaign

Gold winner:

Holyrood PR
Scottish Business Resilience Centre: Cracking the Media

Silver winner:

Weber Shandwick
A dram fine investment

Finalists:

Grayling and M&S
New Foodhalls Place M&S at the Heart of the Community

Havas PR Edinburgh
Asda Carrier Bag Grants – supporting Scottish communities

Holyrood PR
Showcasing Perth To The World

Weber Shandwick
Making a Trademark Tsar

Internal Communications Campaign

Gold winner:

VisitScotland
The Spirit of Scotland

Silver winner:

University of Glasgow
#UofGFullStop

Finalist:

North Ayrshire Council
North Ayrshire Council Internal Communications Campaign

Consumer Relations Campaign

Gold winner:

VisitScotland
Year of Food and Drink 2015

Silver winner:

Wire Media
Tennent’s Lager – Share A Pint

Finalists:

Camelot and 3×1 Group
The National Lottery: Creating more millionaires than ever before

Partick Thistle and Indigo
Kingsley – The seven foot, mono-browed, dentist-deprived ray of sunshine

The BIG Partnership & Edinburgh Dungeon
Catch it while you can! Launching Edinburgh Dungeon’s Deadly Diseases Show

Wire Media
Mackie’s – The Sweetest Job In The World

Public Sector Campaign

Gold winner:

Fife Council
Help a child to Grow

Silver winner:

The Scottish Government Marketing and Smarts Communicate
Don’t miss what’s round the corner

Finalists:

3×1 Group
Just Change – A New Approach to Local Taxation

In Partnership: VisitScotland and the Borders Railway Blueprint Partnership
Borders Railway just the ticket for tourism!

Seafish
Fishing for success with Seafood Week

Skills Development Scotland (SDS)
Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2016

Community Relations Campaign

Gold winner:

Grayling Scotland & M&S
Spark Something Good Edinburgh

Silver winner:

Weber Shandwick and The Scottish Government
Eat Better Feel Better’s Healthy Helpers

Finalists:

Falkirk Council
Stand Up

Orbit Communications
Putting Down Roots – Community Engagement Done Well

Pagoda Porter Novelli
The Mighty Oaks

Weber Shandwick
Underneath the Arches

Public Affairs Campaign

Gold winner:

Cancer Research UK
Scotland Vs Cancer

Silver winner:

Weber Shandwick & SAMH
Ask Once, Get Help Fast

Finalists:

Indigo
Children’s Hospice Association Scotland – Better Care for Children with Shorter Lives

Orbit Communications
Effective Complaining: Increasing the profile of Ombudsman Services

Perceptive Communicators for BioCity Scotland
Enterprise Area

Skills Development Scotland (SDS)
Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2016 – Parliamentary Engagement

Not-for-Profit Campaign

Gold winner:

Pagoda Porter Novelli
Rock Trust Sleep Out 2015

Silver winner:

Orbit Communications
Cyrenians #TellYourStory: We all have a past, a present and a future

Finalists:

Indigo
Care & Repair: Change a Life in a Lunchbreak

Muckle Media
Entrepreneurial Spark reaches entrepreneurs across the UK through quick-thinking Budget reaction

Healthcare Campaign

Gold winner:

Weber Shandwick
Ask Once, Get Help Fast

Silver winner:

Pagoda Porter Novelli
The Mighty Oaks

Finalist:

The Scottish Government and Four Scotland
Giving Flu The Boot

Integrated Campaign

Gold winner:

The Scottish Government and Four Scotland
CSE: Bringing a hidden crime into the open

Silver winner:

Volpa and The Enchanted Forest Community Trust
The Enchanted Forest 2015: FLUX

Finalists:

Scottish Book Trust and Kirsty Innes PR
Book Week Scotland 2015: Taking The Road Less Followed

Seafish
Fishing for success with Seafood Week

The Scottish Government Marketing and Smarts Communicate
Don’t miss what’s round the corner

VisitScotland
Spirit of Scotland

Low Budget Campaign

Gold winner:

Holyrood PR
Scottish Business Resilience Centre: Cracking the Media

Silver winner:

Holyrood PR
Bagpipe Amnesty Hits The Right Note

Finalists:

The Scottish Government and Four Scotland
The True Gift of Giving

VisitScotland with Denholm Associates
Ambassadog – The Search for Scotland’s Canine Ambassador

Weber Shandwick
A dram fine investment

Wire Media
Mackie’s – The Sweetest Job In The World

Arts, Culture or Sport Campaign

Gold winner:

Smarts Communicate and The Scottish Government Marketing
Scotland’s Winter Festivals

Silver winner:

Weber Shandwick
Big Words on the Royal Mile

Best Use of Media Relations

Gold winner:

Weber Shandwick
Bone Appetit! ICMI’s Dog’s Dinner

Silver winner:

Holyrood PR
The Nan Who Loves Naan

Finalists:

Grayling and M&S
Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Smarts Communicate and Scottish Government Marketing
WW100 Scotland: What do we learn from all this?

VisitScotland
Macbeth: The Man, Myth & Legend

Wire Media
Grahams The Family Dairy – When The Cream Rose To The Top

Best Use of Social Media

Gold winner:

Smarts Communicate and The Scottish Government Marketing
Scotland’s Winter Festivals

Silver winner:

University of Glasgow
Social media promotion of the discovery of Gravitational Waves

Finalists:

Pagoda Porter Novelli with The Scotch Whisky Experience
#whiskymeet for World Whisky Day

Scottish Government
Changing children’s future by the power of social media

Seafish
Fish Pun Day

The Scottish Government Marketing and Smarts Communicate
Don’t miss what’s round the corner

Best Use of Photography or Design

Gold winner:

Weber Shandwick
From Rags to Riches

Silver winner:

NHS Education for Scotland
The First Bite is with the Eye

Finalists:

Muckle Media
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of HIE across the Highlands and Islands and around the world

Think
The RPS Journal

Weber Shandwick
Design of a Night-time

Best Publication

Gold winner:

West Dunbartonshire Council
Housing News

Silver winner:

Think
Be Healthy

Finalists:

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA)
Sheltered Housing News

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA)
The Key

Think
Connect

Weber Shandwick
Reading of a Night-time

Best Event

Gold winner:

Real PR and Real Food Real Folk
Let’s Eat Glasgow!

Silver winner:

Muckle Media
Gordon & MacPhail: Launch of Mortlach 75 Years Old, the world’s most exclusive whisky

Finalists:

Grayling and M&S
Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

North Ayrshire Council
Provost’s Civic Pride Awards Charity Dinner

Skills Development Scotland (SDS)
Scotland’s Modern Apprenticeship Awards 2015

Talking Canvas
Aquaculture conference makes a splash

Issues or Crisis Management

Gold winner:

The City of Edinburgh Council
Managing the City’s Emergency School Closures

Silver winner:

Scottish Canals
Sharing the journey; Scottish Canals and our customers

Finalist:

Amey and Transport Scotland
Closure of the Forth Road Bridge; an event of national significance

Outstanding Young Communicator

Gold winner:

Julie Brander MCIPR
Weber Shandwick

Finalists:

Chris Fairbairn ACIPR
Holyrood PR

Craig MacLellan ACIPR
Pagoda Porter Novelli

Leo Plaster MCIPR
VisitScotland

Nick Hanlon MCIPR
Weber Shandwick

Sarah Ward MCIPR
Weber Shandwick

Outstanding Independent Practitioner

Gold winner:

Lisa Palompo Dixon MCIPR
Palompo PR

Public Sector Team of the Year

Gold winner:

VisitScotland

Silver winner:

The City of Edinburgh Council

Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team

Gold winner:

VisitScotland

Silver winner:

Wheatley Group

Finalist:

The City of Edinburgh Council

Outstanding Small Public Relations Consultancy

Gold winner:

Perceptive Communicators

Silver winner:

Holyrood PR

Finalists:

Becky White PR

O’Leary PR

Volpa

Outstanding Public Relations Consultancy

Gold winner:

Wire Media

Silver winner:

Weber Shandwick

Finalists:

3×1 Group

Citypress Scotland

Muckle Media

Pagoda Porter Novelli