Blackpool agency wins three national awards in seven days

Blackpool-based Catapult PR, has won three awards in the course of a week, becoming a double winner at the prestigious PRCA DARE Awards North and also being named the North England Prestige Awards’ ‘Public Relations Firm of the Year’ for Lancashire and Northern England.

At the Public Relations and Communications Association Awards. It scooped both the Campaign Challenges Award and the Best Media Relations Campaign Award, seeing off competition from agencies and in-house PR and marketing departments from across the whole of the north.

It won the former for rapidly turning its Northumberland Day, in May 2020 campaign online after coronavirus lockdown made the planned al fresco celebrations impossible. It won the latter award for its work with recycler The Used Kitchen Company for its Kitchen Passport scheme.

The North England Prestige Award was won after judges carried out a mystery shopping style exercise.

Managing director, Jane Hunt, said: “Lockdown saw us working harder than ever, with 11-hour days being the norm, just to make sure our clients emerged fighting fit and ready to achieve their goals as soon as restrictions lifted.

"Across the board, that’s what Catapult PR’s clients have done and, whilst the accolades we are now winning are, as always, a testimony to our creativity and results, this year they are also down to judges recognising just how much we threw in to keeping our clients at the forefront of their sectors.

"That is truly rewarding, as we care deeply about all of our clients’ businesses and livelihoods.”