{"id":97581,"date":"2016-12-09T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=97581"},"modified":"2016-12-19T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:29:01","slug":"public-affairs-awards-who-were-the-big-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/public-affairs-awards-who-were-the-big-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Affairs Awards: who were the big winners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last night 430 of the country\u2019s leading figures in public affairs came together to celebrate the industry\u2019s best and brightest at the 2016 Public Affairs Awards. The awards were presented by Vuelio and hosted by PRCA, GovKnow and Zetter\u2019s Political Services, and winners were chosen from 22 categories ranging from Consultancy Campaign to Party Fringe Event of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Outstanding Contribution award, which was sponsored by Vuelio, went to Iain Anderson, and the Douglas Smith Prize 2016 was awarded to Liz Laurence of Weber Shandwick. EEF walked away with both In-house Team of the Year and Trade Body Campaign of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Other big winners include the Royal Mail\u2019s \u200ePublic Affairs Manager Michael Hogg, who won In-house Professional of the Year, and Consultant of the Year Chris White from Newington Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise Forum was handed Party Conference Reception of the Year for \u2018The Enterprise Forum\u2019s Business Reception\u2019 campaign, while Party Fringe Event of the Year went to Connect Public Affairs. Royal Mail won Party Conference Stand of the Year for its \u2018Royal Mail 500 Years\u2019 stand. H+K Strategies won the Social Media Campaign of the Year award for its work and the Planning Campaign of the Year was awarded to Alpaca Communications for its work on \u2018Bridge the Gap\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A big congratulations to all of the night\u2019s winners, and here\u2019s to another fantastic year in public affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night 430 of the country\u2019s leading figures in public affairs came together to celebrate the industry\u2019s best and brightest at the 2016 Public Affairs Awards. The awards were presented by Vuelio and hosted by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":97588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97590,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97581\/revisions\/97590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}