Visit Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group among winners at PRCA DARE Awards Scotland and Northern Ireland

The Scottish government PR team won the In-House Team of the Year award, Stripe Communications, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, won the Consultancy of the Year award, with the Scottish government also collected the Public and Third Sector award in conjunction with Edinburgh’s Consolidated PR for the ‘A Wee Chat About Organ Donation’ campaign.

PRCA director general Francis Ingham said: “I’d like to commend all of the winners of this year’s DARE Awards in Edinburgh. Not only have they revealed a wealth of PR talent, but with these campaigns we’ve seen some truly innovative methods of communication. I’d also like to thank our judges, who had a huge job on their hands to agree on the winners.”

Other major winners included Edinburgh-based CM Porter Novelli, which won the Live, Launched and Loud category, and the Technology, Trade and B2B category, with Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh handed the award for Corporate, Financial and Stakeholder Relations for its ‘Scottish Widows: Transforming Tradition' campaign.

Visit Scotland in Edinburgh also picked up an award in the Digital and Social Strategy campaign for its ‘Once, Twice, Three Times a Pony’ campaign.

Over the coming months there will be further DARE Awards recognising excellence within the North of England, the Midlands, South East and East Anglia, and South West and Wales.