Four Scottish entries have been shortlisted in an UK-wide PR competition.
The quartet were unveiled among the contenders for this year’s Excellence Awards, run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Says the CIPR: “The CIPR Excellence Awards recognise and reward best practice in public relations throughout the UK and acknowledge personal and team achievement at the highest professional level.”
The Scots nominees are to be found in the public sector and internal communications categories.
In the former, Consolidated PR and the Scottish Government were chosen for its Organ Donation campaign while Weber Shandwick was also chosen, for The Cumbernauld Positive Image Project. In the latter category, The Royal Bank of Scotland was chosen for its Open Doors campaign, while Standard Life Investments was also picked, this time for Made to Measure Leaders.
This year, the CIPR Excellence Awards attracted just under 700 entries across 27 award categories.
The winners will be announced on June 1.
The full shortlist reads:
Corporate and Business Communications
Bondy Consulting – Building Thomson Airways reputation as a leader and innovator in aviation
McDonald's UK – Harnessing Our People Power
MHP Health Mandate – Commissioning in the new world
Grayling with The Economist Intelligence Unit – Leveraging EIU
Three, 3 Monkeys Communications & Parys Communications -Three Network
Investor Relations
Essar Energy and Capital MSL -London's Largest Listing Post-Credit Crunch
MHP -Domino's Pizza UK & IRL, Showing Resilience in a Downturn
MHP@Engine – EMIS Group IPO on AIM
Internal Communications
Action for Children – My Action for Children Day
Camelot UK Lotteries – No laughing matter: Data Protection
Nationwide – Transformation Story
Royal Bank of Scotland – Open Doors
Standard Life Investments – Made to measure leaders
Torbay Council Communications Office – Employee Engagement Campaign
Consumer Relations
Blue Rubicon – One New Change: One New Experience
Kaizo – Flip Video: Sharing Hearts, Minds and Moments
Mere PR – The Everton Revolution
Seventy Seven PR and Jersey Tourism – Jersey Tourism: Putting Jersey on the (Weather) Map
Starfish Communications and TomTom – Campaign to get Brian Blessed to do a voice over for my TomTom
Threepipe / The ATP World Tour – The Art of Tennis
Public Sector
City & Guilds and Hill & Knowlton – City & Guilds delivers extra through PR campaign launch
Consolidated PR and The Scottish Government – Organ Donation
Driving Standards Agency – Independent driving introduced into the driving test
Lee Murgatroyd / BABA – Boxing clever
South Wales Fire & Rescue Service – Project Bernie
Weber Shandwick – The Cumbernauld Positive Image Project
Corporate Responsibility
Aygaz with Lobby PR – Climate change education program: For our children and our children's children
ENRC Kazakhstan – ENRC Charity Project: By the Path of Glory
Isbank – Turkey Chess Federation Sponsorship
Lloyds Banking Group – Our Corporate Responsibility Agenda
Southern Water – Blooming Schools
Public Affairs
Age UK – Scrap the Default Retirement Age
Blue Rubicon + Facebook – Facebook: 2010 General Election
Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan's Vote cancer support campaign
Stop Stansted Expansion – No Second Runway
The Communication Group – UTV Media: Protecting the Future of Radio
WSPA UK – Not in my Cuppa: phase one
Not-for-Profit
Admiral PR – Fashion Kicks
BabyCreative – MND Association's Incurable Optimism campaign
Beatbullying – The Big March
Freshwater – Wales's Invisible Death Row
John Doe Communications – Ctrl.Alt.Shift Presents Dear Diary
Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan Cancer Supports General Election Campaign
St John Ambulance & GolinHarris – Life Lost
Healthcare
90TEN Healthcare for Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – 56 Dean Street: Faster, Closer, Earlier
Breakthrough Breast Cancer – iBreastCheck
British Heart Foundation – The Angina Monologues
MHP Health Mandate and the Rarer Cancers Foundation – Securing a Cancer Drugs Fund
NHS East of England – Saving lives with communications: VTE Assess Prevent
The Communication Group – Saving our Screenagers: Launching the UK's first Youth Technology Addiction Service
Integrated Campaigns
E.ON – E.ON Energy Fit
Freshwater – Wales's Invisible Death Row
Kindred and the Milk Marketing Forum -make mine Milk
Southern Water – Save Water, Save Energy, Save Money
St John Ambulance and GolinHarris – Life Lost
TfL London Rail – The London Overground East London line extension (phase 1) launch campaign – Integrating PR and Marketing
Media Relations
Cow PR – Boomerang Pets Party: K99
Holdsworth Associates and True Knowledge – 'Most boring day' produces interesting result
Kaizo – Flip Video: Sharing Hearts, Minds and Moments
Kindred and the National Apprenticeship Service – Apprenticeship Week 2010
Seventy Seven PR and Jersey Tourism – Jersey Tourism: Putting Jersey on the (Weather) Map
Siren – Royal Caribbean Cruises: Launching new ship Celebrity Eclipse with a repatriation mission
Best Use of Social Media
Blue Rubicon + Facebook – Facebook: 2010 General Election
Gatwick Airport and Rabbit – Talk to Gatwick
Greater Manchester Police – GMP24 – Twitter Day
Kaizo – Flip Video: Sharing Moments
Kindred and the Milk Marketing Forum – make mine Milk
St John Ambulance and GolinHarris – Popcorn
Broadcast
Kaizo – Flip Video: Cause & Credibility
Lansons Communications with Metro Bank – Not just any bank “this is Metro Bank”
markettiers4dc – Making Electric Vehicles Breaking News
Shine Communications – WWE UK Tour
Siren – Royal Caribbean Cruises: Launching new ship Celebrity Eclipse with a repatriation mission
Global Public Relations
Brands2Life – Unisys Security Index
Lansons Communications – Making Luxembourg the centre of the fund world
MHP@Engine – Coller Capital Barometer 2011
salt PR – Launch of Unilever Food Solutions World Menu Report
Smarts – Bushmills Irish Whiskey: Make it at Bushmills
Vero Communications – Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Committee: From longshot to 2022 World Cup host
Crisis Communications
Cornwall Council – Flooding in Cornwall
IPB Communications – Irlam Gas Explosion
NATS – Managing the Volcanic Ash Crisis
Thames Water Press Office – Winter 2010/2011
Yorkshire Water – The Big Freeze
Automotive Public Relations
Citroën UK – GQ & Citroën create a car
Hotwire & INRIX – The INRIX Traffic Scorecard
Nissan Motor GB – Nissan LEAF UK Launch
Project PR – PR drives business at Ford Retail
Prova PR – Fueling Rally fever across Wales
Starfish Communications and TomTom – Campaign To Get Brian Blessed To Do A Voice Over For My TomTom
Low Budget
90TEN Healthcare for Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – 56 Dean Street
Charity Commission – Launching the first national Trustees Week
Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan Cancer Support World's Biggest Coffee Morning 2010
Peppermint PR for Sound Asleep – Rooney is England's Best Snorer
The University of Nottingham – Election 2010 Blog
Threepipe / Florence Nightingale Museum – The Florence Nightingale Museum
External Newspaper or Magazine
2010 Rotherham Marketing and Communications with RBT Creative – 2010 Rotherham – Round Your Place magazine
Durham County Council – Durham County News
Specialist – Liquid
Specialist – Specsavers Magazine
Triodos Bank – The Colour of Money
University for the Creative Arts – Creative Update
Internal Newspaper or Magazine
Mersey Care NHS Trust – Mersey Care Yearbook 2010
NHS Blood and Transplant and Column Communcations (Designers) – Connect: the magazine for NHSBT staff
RBS Invoice Finance – IF Online
Sequel Group and Warburtons – W magazine
Specialist – Britvic Life
The Soldier Team – Soldier Magazine
Publication
BAE Systems – Astute Commissioning book
Barchester Healthcare – 'Visiting Gran's new home' and 'Visiting Grandad's new home' – booklets to explain dementia to a child
Drinkaware – The Drinkaware Unit and Calorie Calculator
Madano Partnership – The Elected Class of 2010
Redhouse Lane – OPTIMA
The Royal British Legion – The Royal British Legion Learning Pack
Website
BAE Systems – Astuteclass.com
British Heart Foundation – bhf.org.uk
Nexus Communications & DairyCo – thisisdairyfarming.com
RAF Benevolent Fund – www.1940chronicle.com
Teesside University – Postgraduate Virtual Open Day
Yorkshire Water – Surfing the tide
Event
Brando and Gatwick Airport – London Gatwick Fashion Week
Frank PR – Making “Call of Duty: Black Ops” the biggest entertainment launch of 2010
Kindred and the Milk Marketing Forum – 'make mine Milk' Sunday Session
Shine Communications – Indesit Party Launderette
The Royal British Legion – Silence in the Square
Westgate Communications – DFDS Seaways Operation Dynamo
Outstanding Young Communicator
Tina Gleadall – HM Revenue and Customs
David Hamilton – Action for Children
Doug Hewett – Engage Group
Chris Holly – Unicef UK
James Poulter – Lexis PR
Catherine Worboys – Curtin&Co
Best Freelance Practitioner
Peter Bowles – The Freelance Launchpad
Stuart Brooks – Blackbird Communications
Robin Lander Brinkley – Maxwell Communications
Rachel O'Reilly – Solo success in the travel industry
Lionel Zetter – Freelance work for ICE, AOA, NLH, TEAS
Outstanding Small Consultancy
Bondy Consulting
Komodo PR & Digital Communications – An outstanding small consultancy called Komodo
TopLine Communications – SMEs don't have to think small
Vero Communications – A Sports Specialist with a Global Impact
Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team
British Heart Foundation – Multimedia That Makes A Difference
British Library – Growing the world's knowledge
Thames Water Press Office
The Kellogg Company – Bringing it in-house
The Prostate Cancer Charity
The Royal Shakespeare Company
Outstanding Public Relations Consultancy
Bite Communications – Reinventing Our Point Of View
Brands2Life – Delivering results on every front
Frank – An Outstanding Year
Octopus Group – PR but not as we know it
Tangerine PR – A Company to be Proud of
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