Crawley Borough Council’s Communications team came up trumps last week after scooping a prestigious award.
The Crawley resident’s magazine, Crawley Live, took on a host of magazines and newspapers from across the region to bag the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards Home Counties South for the best newspaper or magazine 2009.
CIPR judges felt Crawley Live ‘appealed to both young and older residents, providing easy to read content, promoting the council’s services from a user’s perspective’ and described it as ‘an excellent entry in a hotly contested category’.
Crawley Council Communications Officer and Crawley Live Editor, Allan Hambly, said: “Since we re-launched Crawley Live in October 2008 we have had lots of positive feedback from residents.
“We aim to inform readers about council services in an interesting and entertaining way and this award shows that we are doing this – we’re not sitting on our laurels though and we’re constantly trying to improve the magazine.”
Crawley Live is a 24-page bi-monthly magazine which is printed on recycled paper and delivered to residents.
It was re-launched with a contemporary new design in October 2008 and in just 12 months has also been shortlisted for a CIPR national award and will go up against other public sector publications at the CorpComms awards next month.
Caroline Brown, Chair of Home Counties South, said: “A CIPR Pride Award is a hallmark of professionalism and success – it identifies, recognises and rewards the outstanding achievements of those working in the PR industry outside of London. To win a CIPR Pride Award is a tremendous achievement and I congratulate all of this year’s winners.”
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(L-R) Communications Officers Allan Hambly and Stacia Baldock, Jo Sired and Mark Tiley of design studio Tileywoodman
Notes for editors
The CIPR PRide Awards have grown in strength and stature, recognising public relations success and achievement in the nations and regions.
There were over 1,400 plus entries UK-wide this year.
The CIPR PRide Awards is the only awards scheme which showcases the best PR work being carried out across the UK regions and nations and sets industry standards.
The judging process is rigorous with a national panel of industry experts assessing the shortlisted entries and choosing the winners.
For 2009 we appointed two Chairs of Judges, John Aspery and Chris Genasi, who will resolve any disputes and help ensure a fair and consistent judging process.
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