Golden Hedgehog PR Awards comes to London

Over 500 PR and communications professionals attended the annual Golden Hedgehog Awards for the Midlands, Wales and South, at the Troxy theatre in London last night. Presented by PR Moment in association with Cision UK, the award ceremony celebrated and recognised excellence in PR and comms across 27 winning categories.

McDonald’s UK & Blue Rubicon  for the McDonald’s Quality Scouts campaign took home the coveted ‘PR Moment Grand Prix Award’ as well as the ‘Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year.’
MHP Brand & Game and Brands2Life won two awards each including the ‘Social Media Campaign of the Year’ for MHP and ‘Large Agency of the Year’for Brands2Life.  The ‘Golden Hoglet’ award given to Tanvir Nandra of the IAM Group while Elephant Communications won ‘New Agency of the Year’ and Capella PR was named the best ‘Small agency of the Year.’ 

The ceremony was the last leg of the Golden Hedgehogs for the year with an earlier award ceremony for the North concluding a week ago in Manchester. 

Below is an overview of the evening in pictures and some tweets from the aftermath: 

Over 500 people attended the South Golden Hedgehog Awards in London

Cision, headline sponsors of the event

The winning team of McDonald’s UK & Blue Rubicon

Brands2Life picking up the ‘Large Agency of the Year’ award

Cision’s Marc Swan presents the ‘Community Engagement Campaign of the Year’ to Unity – DRYATHLON, for Cancer Research UK

Markettiers4dc get the bubbly for winning the Cision Quiz

Photo Booth moment

Twitter Talk:

So, who has a headache? #hedgehogawards

— PRmoment.com (@therealprmoment) March 21, 2014

Such a fun night thank you @standsays @franrivettc @dreamingNYC #goldenhedgehogs pic.twitter.com/ZEkjLLZ5JL

— Cecilia Cran (@C_Cran) March 21, 2014

We had a great time at the Golden Hedgehogs last night – congratulations to all of the winners! #PR #awards pic.twitter.com/2QFQJZYnRV

— NelsonBostock (@NelsonBostock) March 21, 2014

What a fabulous night at the @therealprmoment #hedgehogawards event! I love you guys @UKTV_Press pic.twitter.com/dFlvXjWXza

— Kelly Phelps (@Kelly_P27) March 21, 2014

Trying reenact Genesis cover. I can’t dance!? #hedgehogawards pic.twitter.com/AIeFHzAkWB

— Lara Hallett (@Lara_Hallett) March 20, 2014