The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has opened the entry process for the 2015 Excellence Awards, the “public relations profession’s longest running and most prestigious awards scheme”. PubAffairs is delighted to be a Sponsor of this year’s Awards.
This year’s list of categories has been bolstered with the inclusion of new campaign categories as well as new team categories, to bring the total number of awards up-for-grabs to 28.
Amongst the categories is the Public Affairs Campaign which recognises “a successful public affairs campaign designed to inform or change public policy, or to influence the legislative process”. Last year’s winners were the Association of Colleges with their campaign “No Free Lunch?”.
Paul Mylrea Chart.PR FCIPR (Director of Communications at the University of Cambridge) and Sandra Macleod FCIPR (Founder and CEO of Mindful Reputation) will Chair the Judging Panel of over 50 industry experts.
The regular deadline for entries is 6pm on Tuesday 24 February 2015, with late entries being accepted until 6pm on Tuesday 3 March (late fee applies). For more details about the Excellence Awards, please visit the CIPR website.
There are 28 Excellence Awards categories in total. To view the information and criteria for a category, please click here to visit the Excellence Awards website:
1. Corporate and Business Communications Campaign
2. Internal Communications Campaign
3. Consumer Relations Campaign
4. Public Sector Campaign
5. Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign
6. Diversity and Inclusion in Communications Campaign
7. Public Affairs Campaign
8. Not-For-Profit Campaign
9. Healthcare Campaign
10. Integrated Campaign
11. Global Public Relations Campaign
12. Issues or Crisis Management
13. Automotive Campaign
14. Low Budget Campaign
15. STEM Campaign
16. Arts, Culture or Sport Campaign
17. Best Use of Media Relations
18. Best Use of Digital
19. Best Use of Social Media
20. Best Publication
21. Best Event
22. Outstanding Young Communicator
23. Outstanding Independent Practitioner
24. CIPR IoD Public Relations Director of the Year
25. Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team
26. Outstanding Small Public Relations Consultancy
27. Outstanding Mid-Sized Public Relations Consultancy
28. Outstanding Large Public Relations Consultancy