Against tough competition (Manchester Airport, Astra Zeneca and Kellogg’s being the others considered for this award) Stockport Council’s central Marketing and Communications team has been judged to be the very best in-house communications team in the North West by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

These awards recognise and reward best communications practice in public relations in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the North West. The judging procedures for these were rigorous and are always carried out by independent judges.

The Council’s Marketing and Communications team also won two more Gold awards: for the Reporter, Stockport Council’s staff magazine, which has won the ‘Best Magazine’ category across all organisations in the North West and for the Stockport Review, which won the prize as
the Best Newspaper.

Business Services’ e-newsletter, ‘Inside’, won the Silver award in the Best Newsletter category.

As well as these, Stockport Council also finalists for the following categories:

Best Public Sector Initiative – Active Stockport
Best Integrated Communications – Stockport Boost
Best Website or Microsite – stockport.gov.uk

Ian Ratcliffe, Stockport’s head of Marketing and Communications said “We had to clearly show we have consistently performed at the very highest level in devising effective, value for money communications campaigns that deliver tangible results for our residents. It is really hard to even be shortlisted for any of the awards, so we are delighted to perform so well against such mammoth competition in the tough operating climate we find ourselves in.”

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