UnAwards 2023 - the shortlist

1.     Best ethical comms behaviour/diversity

Shortlist

  • Affinity Trust

  • Companies House

  • Brent Council

  • Islington Council

  • Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance

 

2.     Best social media account

Shortlist

  • Colchester Council Facebook

  • Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

  • North West Ambulance Facebook

  • Manchester City Council

  • Derbyshire Constabulary Tik Tok

  • Met Office TikTok

 

3.     Best crisis comms

Shortlist

  • Transport for Wales

  • Dorset Council/Dorset Local Resilience Forum

  • Essex Fire and Rescue Service

  • Staffordshire County Council

  • Brent Council

 

4. Best small team

Shortlist

  • North London Waste Authority

  • We are Staffordshire

  • Royal Free Charity

  • Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority

  • South Yorkshire Pensions Authority

5. Best use of video

Shortlist

  • United Welsh

  • Liverpool City Council

  • Rachel Brown, CAN Digital and 62 local authorities

  • Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority

6. Best young communicator

Shortlist

  • Edward Parker Humphreys, Lewisham Council

  • Carmen Proctor, Staffordshire County Council

  • Poppy Matthews, Cheltenham Borough Council & Cheltenham Borough Homes

  • Lauren Hunt, Staffordshire County Council

  • Ellie Caddick, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

7. Best use of research and evaluation

Shortlisted

  • Oxfordshire County Council

  • NHS England

  • Achieving for Children - Alive with Ideas

  • Companies House

  • Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, Marketing and Communications Team

8. Best work by and agency/freelancer

Shortlisted

  • Alive with Ideas for Affinity Trust brand creation

  • Hitch and EY3 for Greater Manchester Combined Authority

  • Grey Fox for NHS NW London Health and Social Care Academy

  • Magpie for Hertfordshire County Council

  • Alive with Ideas for Achieving for Children

9. Best use of data

Shortlisted

  • Wigan Council PR Team - Here for You

  • Essex Fire and Rescue Service - Using data to increase volunteer applications

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Helping Hand for the Cost of Living

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Helping Hands campaign

  • Hertfordshire County Council - Keep us Together, fostering siblings campaign

10.     Best low cost/free comms

Shortlisted

  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

  • Wakefield Council

  • Liverpool City Council

  • Police Scotland

  • Rachel Brown, CAN Digital and 62 local authorities      

11.     Supporting health and wellbeing in communications

Shortlisted

  • Hertfordshire County Council  - Here for you this winter

  • London Borough of Lewisham - Warm Welcomes: Community Living Rooms

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority/Hitch Marketing/EY3 Media - Violence Reduction Campaign - #IsThisOk?

  • Kensington and Chelsea Council, Westminster City Council, Young K&C - We got U, U Got this - Youth Mental Health Signposting

  • Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Comms Team - The clock is ticking

12. Best internal comms

Shortlisted

  • Buckinghamshire Council - Financial Wellbeing - internal Comms Campaign

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Cost of Living Support for Staff

  • Corporate Communications team at Bosch UK - Bosch ‘125 Acts of Kindness’

  • The Royal College of Physicians: Spark - the intranet that brings people together

  • Hertfordshire County Council - Steps to a Cleaner, Greener, Healthier Team Walking Challenge

13.    Best social media campaign

Shortlisted

  • Hertfordshire County Council - Here for you this winter

  • Manchester City Council - Bringing the Buzz to Social Media

  • London Borough of Tower Hamlets - #TowerHamletsMoments

  • Rachel Brown, CAN Digital and 62 local authorities      

  • London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Anti-social Behaviour Awareness Week

14.     Best comms pro

Shortlisted

  • Polly Fisher - Hertfordshire County Council

  • Lauren Hunt – Staffordshire County Council

  • Dom Bowers – Essex Fire and Rescue Service

  • Scott Grant - Colchester City Council

  • Andrew Turton – West Midlands Combined Authority

  • Carrie-Ann Wade – Cat’s Pajamas

15.      Best collaboration

Shortlisted

  • Rachel Brown, CAN Digital and 62 local authorities      

  • We Are Staffordshire - Staffordshire a place to thrive

  • Tower Hamlets – Cost of living

16.     Best use of email

Shortlisted

  • Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council – Secondary School Admissions

  • North West Ambulance Service - Better Health, Better You

  • Surrey County Council - Surrey Matters

  • City of Doncaster Council  – Your Life

  • Basildon Borough council – Garden Waste Subscription Service launch

17. Best creative comms

Shortlisted

  • Staffordshire County Council – Staffordshire’s carbon bubble

  • North London Waste Authority – Together we recycle

  • Rachel Brown, CAN Digital and 62 local authorities      

  • Tower Hamlets Council – Let’s rethink it

  • Affinity Trust – Together we make it possible

>> PUBLIC VOTE >>

You, the comms community, will decide the winners of three important categories:

18. Best Guest Post of 2023

19. Best Communications Team

20. Lifetime Achievement

You can vote HERE. The Public Vote closes on 21 November, at midnight

>> Well done everyone. shortlisted. See you on the big day at the lovely Everyman Cinema in Birmingham’s iconic Mailbox on 1 December.

You can grab up to two tickets per organisation HERE.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the UnAwards. Darren