CIPR Northern Ireland Awards 2026 | Gold and Silver Winners
Congratulations to the teams and individuals recognised at the 2026 CIPR Northern Ireland Awards. The full list of Gold and Silver winners is below.
Arts, Culture, Sport or Entertainment Campaign
Gold: Morrow Communications for Celebrating 130 Years of the Grand Opera House as a Jewel in Belfast’s Crown
Silver: LK Communications for Experience Pennsylvania Live: Turning Sport into Culture
STEM Campaign
Gold: Survitec Survival Technology for In-Port Detentions White Paper
Best Use of Content
Gold: Lough Erne Resort for Christmas Carpool Karaoke: Surprise & Delight
Silver: LK Communications for From Social Content to Citywide Growth: The Belfast Flavours Story
Best Use of Digital and Social Media
Gold: Lough Erne Resort for Christmas Carpool Karaoke: Surprise & Delight
Silver: LK Communications for Belfast Flavours: How Social Storytelling Transformed a City’s Food Tourism Economy
Best Use of Media Relations
Sponsored by Nimms
Gold: Cavendish for Fibrus Remote Working Index
Silver: ASG for Historic Luxury Reborn: Launching The Bedford Hotel
Corporate and Business Communications Campaign
Gold: Belfast Harbour for Belfast Harbour Masterplan 2025–2050
Healthcare and/or Wellbeing Campaign
Gold: Cavendish for Ladies with Letters: A Red Letter Day That No One Wanted
Silver: Renatus Collective for Beyond Weight Loss: Building a Stigma-Free Health and Wellbeing Community
Best CSR Campaign
Sponsored by Coca-Cola
Gold: AIB NI and Morrow Communications for AIB GOAL Mile Campaign
Best Consumer Relations Campaign
Silver: AU Vodka / Elevator for Live Rent Free
Integrated Campaign
Sponsored by U105
Gold: LK Communications for Experience Pennsylvania Live: If You Can’t Buy Fame, Build Culture
Silver: Morrow Communications for Keys, Phone, Money, Cup: Reducing Waste, One Cup at a Time
Internal Communications Campaign
Gold: Survitec for Turning Strategy Into Action: The Vista Growth Summit
Low Budget Campaign
Gold: Renatus Collective for Delivering National Impact on a Shoestring
Silver: ASG for Historic Luxury Reborn: Launching The Bedford Hotel
Not-for-Profit Campaign
Gold: ASG for Good Relations Week 2025
Silver: LK Communications for Changing Perceptions of Hillsborough Castle & Gardens: Opening Heritage to New Audiences
Public Affairs Campaign
Sponsored by Ardmore Group
Gold: Cavendish for Ladies with Letters
Silver: Morrow Communications and NIFDA for Feeding the Economy
Public Sector Campaign
Gold: LK Communications for Go Succeed: Building Northern Ireland’s Most Recognisable Enterprise Support Brand
Silver: Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service for NIFRS On-Call Firefighter Recruitment Campaign: ‘Your Town, Your Team, Your NIFRS’
Best Campaign of the Year, Outside Northern Ireland
Gold: Sara McCracken Consulting Ltd for Great Big Green Week 2025 – Bringing 1.2 million people together for climate and nature
Silver: LK Communications for Experience Pennsylvania Live – If You Can’t Buy Fame, Build Culture
Travel, Leisure or Tourism Campaign
Gold: Lough Erne Resort for Christmas Carpool Karaoke: Surprise & Delight
Silver: Elevator for Elephant Rock
Best Long-Term Client Care
Gold: Cavendish for A strategic partnership for 20+ years
Silver: ASG for ASG & Marks & Spencer: A 39-Year Partnership Built on Trust, Insight and Impact
Best Event, Launch and/or Activation
Sponsored by United Wines
Silver: Retail NI for High Street Heroes NI
Silver: Cavendish for Celebrating 60 years of care in Northern Ireland
Outstanding Young Communicator of the Year
Sponsored by University of Ulster
Gold: Ellen McConville Boyd, Teneo
Independent PR Practitioner of the Year
Gold: Sinead Doyle, SD Create
Silver: Sonya Cassidy, Sonya Cassidy PR Limited
Small PR Consultancy of the Year
Gold: Impact Communications
PR Consultancy of the Year
Gold: Morrow Communications
Silver: RNN Communications