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There’s always a lot going on at Ready10 with both clients and staff. Here’s a few of the things we’ve been up to recently…and a little less recently….

Agency of the Year. Say it again. And again.

After last night’s PR Week Awards, we can proudly say that we’re PR Week, PRCA and CIPR’s Consultancy of the Year 2023. Safe to say it’s been a great year!  

KIND-OF AWESOME

We brought the curtain down on our Women’s World Cup campaign for KIND with a 100m ‘welcome home’ message on the Heathrow flight path

MUM'S THE WORD

We are delighted to support the launch of the PR Mums group. See what our Managing Partner Sophie had to say in PR Week

'EXCELLENT' NEWS...

We followed up our CIPR win by being named PR Consultancy of the Year at the CIPR Excellence Awards. Not a bad month!

IN HINDSIGHT...

Our found David Fraser spoke to the PR Moment podcast about his PR journey

TWO FOR THE WIN!

We were thrilled to win twice at the PRCA Dare awards, including scooping the Large Consultancy of the Year Trophy! See more here.

WOOF!

The beers are on us, now we’ve picked up a new household-name brewer as a client. Read more about it here!

INTRODUCING KLAXONN

Time to make some more noise… We’ve just launched Klaxonn, our live experiences and events comms division that specialises in making noise for clients in the IRL space. Find out more here

TWO MORE FOR THE AWARDS SHELF

It was an exciting night at the PR Week Awards as our Project Light mission won best campaign in the Issues and Reputation Management category, while our One’s Lovin It campaign for McDonald’s was highly commended for Best Integrated campaign. 

New office who dis?

After over a year of planning, last week saw us move into our new digs in Highbury and Islington. It's a truly beautiful space which reflects our incredible growth over the past few years, and we're really proud to call it home. See the full walk through here

Best Places to Work finalist

This one means a lot to everyone at Ready10 HQ. Our team and culture are everything so we're delighted to be named a finalist in the PR Week Awards Best Places to Work!

 

 

We're a PR Week Top 50 Consumer agency

The PR Week Top 150 Consumer agencies table is out and we are number 46... our highest ever ranking and we're the youngest agency in the Top 50 🔥🔥🔥

Sore heads

Our team were nursing a few sore heads in May after an EPIC all-agency three day trip to Ibiza to celebrate our belated fifth birthday. 

Happy Holidays

We're wrapping up the Ready10 Xmas party and what a 24 hours - celebrating brilliant work, brilliant people and in a gorgeous location. See what we got up to in Staffordshire here, there's even a guest appearance from Honey G!

OCTOBER

It's certainly been a massive few weeks at Ready10 during October. Marathon tick, medalists tick, mug tick, music tick, McDonalds tick. See everything we've been up to here

COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

PRWeek recently conducted its Pay Gap Report, and found that Ready10 has no ethnic or gender pay gap. We also announced our female-majority management board – just some of the measures we’re taking as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion.

LET'S TALK ABOUT JUNE

June was busy at Ready10, we urged world leaders to walk the walk on carbon emissions, we landed front page news on the first weekend of the Euros and we even unveiled a pitch-sized St George's Cross. See the full video here

WE HIT THE TOP 50

We are on the PR Week Top 50 consumer table for the first time....and we are the youngest agency on it. Find out more here

 

READY10 TURNS FIVE

To celebrate our fifth birthday, we created a piece of NFT art. The 3,600 letter wordsearch by artist Charlotte Posner has the names of all 124 staff and clients in our history - can you spot yourself?

INVISIBLE XMAS PARTY

We spent November and December encouraging businesses to donate their unused party budgets to support thousands of hospitality workers. We’re pleased to say we raised over £16,000 for Hospitality Action

FOOTBALLSHIRTFRIDAY

We gave a shirt about beating bowl cancer by wearing our favourite football shirts with pride in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund. 

DRIVING IT HOME

We picked up Best Automotive Campaign at the PRCA National Awards for our work with JustPark. Go team!

BME PR PROS

Our account exec Debbie Nambo spoke at 2020’s BME PR Pros Winter Series event. Get it girl!

MENTAL HEALTH IN PR

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, our founder David Fraser joined #PRHub to discuss mental health in PR. You can listen to the episode here

TRIPLE CROWN

We picked up three gongs at the PRCA Dares. One for our digital McDonald’s work, second for our JustPark charity work and Medium Consultancy of the Year.

100 DAYS OF WFH

100 days ago we thought we’d only be away a few weeks, here’s a look back of 100 days!

WEEK AT THE PR KNEES

PR Week’s 2020 Awards shortlist has been revealed and we’re up for small consultancy of the year and for our JustPark General Election campaign!

READY TO HELP

On March 16th 2020, we held our final staff meeting altogether before lockdown and all agreed on a simple promise: that if we can help others during this time, we should.  From there, Ready to Help was born.

CHARTERED EXCELLENCE

We're in the running for CIPR's consultancy of the year and up for awards for our McDonald's Joe Marler and JustPark General Election campaigns.

OUR MOMENT

Hot off the press - we've not been nominated for one, not two, but six PRMoment awards for 2020. Two are for agency of the year and four are for our brilliant campaigns for PRO 2GO and JustPark. 

IT'S A HAT-RICK!

We didn't just win won, or two, we've just brought home our third award of the year - for Small Consultancy of the Year at the PRCA's. We're chuffed

CUT US SOME FLACK

Our PRWeek awards line up got us some attention in PRWeek ahead of the boozy filled night

SNACK ATTACK

We brought the sport of “tag” (now a pro sport) to East London for the launch of PRO 2GO in the UK. Here’s seven things you need to know about it

YOU’RE IT!

We recently put on the World Chase Tag Championships (AKA ‘You’re it’) for PRO 2GO

GREAT AWARD, AVERAGE SELFIE

We won Oustanding Small Consultancy att he CIPR Excellence Awards (and got a picture with Jeremy Vine!)

VOUCH FOR US:

When we won Vouchercodes.co.uk, we wanted to share the love with everyone, so listed a Free Idea offer on their site!

(NOT) SAVING FACE:

Our director Aimée commented on the North Face/Wikipedia mess-up for PR Week.

DARE YA:

We’re delighted to be shortlisted for six awards at the PRCA Dares, including for Agency of the Year.

MARKETING MESSIS:

We helped organise the first ever PR Cup – a five-a-side football tournament to raise money for the Taylor Bennett Foundation. Read the report on the day here

PROLIFIC:

We scooped FOUR trophies at the Prolific London awards

The Classics

DIDN’T WE LOOK YOUNG? :

We launched in April 2016…here’s what we told the trade press at the time.

WE NEW IT! :

We were delighted to win PR Week’s New Consultancy of the Year in 2017.

WE BOLDLY WENT WHERE NO AGENCY HAS:

We won Destination Star Trek so announced our win in Klingon!

TIMELESS OR TIMELAPSE:

We got a little bit fed up of al the timelapse graphics marketers were putting out, to we designed our own.

LUCKY FOR SOME:

To celebrate our 13th pay day (well, we do it every year), we created a press release on a payslip.

PROVOKE PIERS:

There’s nothing quite like winding up Piers Morgan – so we thought we’d build a campaign generator guaranteed to come up with a PR idea that would rile him. Try it yourself at http://provokepiers.com/

IN POD WE TRUST:

Our founder David Fraser was the guest on the PR Moment podcast, talking about the story behind the agency.