Test your brain power and let us know if you manage to spot them all. We’re currently trying to get 100%!
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Mar
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Mar
Red Nose Day 2013 continues!
Today at SA Towers we opened our doors for our first ever coffee morning and sold lots of delicious cake and good old cups of tea. We met the lovely people in our community and still got to do our bit for charity – we hope they enjoyed it too.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came and was so generous.
We raised a whopping £106.77 for Comic Relief AND we are still totting up how much cash we got from doing manicures, trick or treat lucky dip, biding on sock monkeys and sponsored car washes!
We’ll update you with our total when we’ve finished counting… now where was that abacus?…
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Nov
CIPR awards winners
We’re so happy to have won the Gold Award for Best Internal Publication at the 2012 CIPR Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Pride Awards for ‘U’ magazine with UKAR.
The now multi award-winning quarterly magazine is produced for UKAR colleagues. Judges said: “UKAR and scarlettabbott’s U magazine’s unique and creative design is made ‘by the people, for the people’ and therefore is attractive to its target audience. The publication has helped forge an internal community and increased staff interaction with UKAR and scarlettabbott. Its content informs staff of company policy and decisions, helping it remain transparent and honest during difficult economic times. The informal tone of this magazine is spot on and opportunities for staff to become photographers and ‘news hounds’ have proved to be motivational.”
Woop woop – well done team UKAR and scarlettabbott! We’re also chuffed to bits for our client Morrisons who took home the Gold Award for Internal Communications and the award for Best Use of Measurement & Evaluation for its Own Brand Refresh, and to East Coast and UKAR who were finalists in the Best Event category.
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Oct
IOIC North award winners
We’re chuffed to have won Best Special Publication at the IOIC North Awards on 28 September for our ‘Pub Power Pack’ publication with United Utilities. The award winning little booklet was produced for colleagues to help them talk more knowledgeably about their employer ‘down the pub’. We also won a silver award in the Best Campaign category for our ‘Helping Life Flow Smoothly’ interactive workshop for UU managers and teams. Whoop whoop and well done, Jen, Ross, Julie, Rachel and the team at UU.
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Aug
Hot off the press
When we heard that one of the World’s largest banks needed help producing their employee magazine in print and online, we just couldn’t resist getting involved.
And our first edition of Santander’s Ideas magazine has gone down a storm. We’re just putting the finishing touches to their ‘all singing, all dancing’ digital version that we’ve re-designed to work well on screen. It complements the print mag with some extended features, bags of animation, video, and interactivity to keep the reader gripped.
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May
Hurrah for UKAR!
Our client UKAR is celebrating a win this week at the CIPR’s most prestigious National Excellence Awards. They beat off a bevy of other top companies to steal the award for the best internal newspaper or magazine, for their employee magazine ‘U’.
We’re all thrilled! We’ve written and produced five editions now and had great feedback from both the client and the readers.
This year, U magazine has:
- Been a key driver in Internal Communications achieving a 75% IC effectiveness score in the engagement survey.
- Generated a superb 1,007 contribution emails and calls.
- Showcased the talents and contribution of over 200 employees.
- Helped to promote and raise over £111,887 for good causes in 2011.
- Inspired over 160 colleagues to email the magazine with positive feedback.
Well done to everyone involved!
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Apr
Saving dough with Morrisons
We’re using our loaf on all things financial to support our favourite supermarket Wm Morrison.
We’re helping to raise financial awareness amongst their 132,000 employees. The communication programme ‘Save your dough’ is supported by independent financial expert Alvin Hall and is helping colleagues to save money today and think about saving for tomorrow. Books, a website, money makeover films, augmented reality distribution and live events are all in the mix. It’s changing real people’s lives and it feels great!
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Feb
Double award win
Absolutely thrilled to have won two awards with the fab team at London Midland this week.
A class win for Best New or Relaunched Publication and award of excellence in the Best Magazine category at the IoIC Central Region Awards. Go team BtL!!
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Feb
Improving manager comms
This week Rachel was in her element facilitating a workshop on improving manager communication. Hosted by lovely Aviva in London, we brought together IC folks from Halifax, first direct, Pace, HMRC, First Capital Connect and McCain Foods. It was a blast and there were lots of great insights to share. We’re running another session on 21 March so, if talking about improving manager communication gets your juices flowing, come along!
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Dec
Messy Christmas!
Ding ding! Round two!
Our Christmas game was such a hit in 2010 we’ve come back for more!
Instead of posting out Christmas cards, we’ll donate £100 to the winner’s charity of choice. Much more fun and better for the environment too!
Well done guys!!