If you follow me on Twitter, you will have no doubt been seeing my recent tweets about the charity pub quiz I organise for the regional committee of the CIPR. I hate plugging things too much but the pub quiz was to raise money for a charitable cause that was deeply close to my heart. A journalist friend of mine called Nigel Scott sadly died of cancer in 2009 and so collectively we decided to hold a fun event last year to honour him and ...

I posted a while ago about a quiz I was organising to help raise money for a couple of charities. Well last night all the magic came together and we held the quiz at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Leeds. It was held in the memory of the former business editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post Nigel Scott. The reason I wanted it to do it was Nigel was a great guy and someone that made us lowly PR people feel at ease. He truly was the nicest journalist I have ever spoken too. I felt an event that brought all of the PR ...

As I sure many of you know I am the social media coordinator for the CIPR in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region. As a regional committee we get involved in organising lots of corporate events and training but on the whole we don’t organise many fun networking events. I felt we needed to hold a regional event that brought together the local Yorkshire based PR companies and the media. I also wanted to do something for a for a brilliant journalist, and friend of mine, who sadly died at the age of ...

Warning – this is a self promotional post! I took a call yesterday out of the blue from a lady at the CIPR who called to inform us that we had won the overall national Grand Prix Award for our category. To be honest I was a little shocked but also truly delighted. I won’t lie to you, blood, sweat and tears (well almost) went into our first ever award submission and we only entered the regional awards because Wolfstar had only been going for a short period and we didn’t have enough time to ...

In my new role as social media coordinator for CIPR Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, I have advised that initially it creates an open Facebook group to share more information with its members and non-members. To be honest, it's not the most exciting item of social media/group to look at just yet (we only have 12 members as I write) as we still need some good official CIPR content to be added but it’s a start and it's an organic thing, which means we can all begin to post items and provide updates to each other. The group is open to anyone interested in PR in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions, they don’t need ...