Lancashire PR agency, Catapult PR, has been shortlisted for five PRCA Dare Awards North, as it continues to prove in its 22nd year that it’s not how big you are, but how creative, how positive and how daring when it comes to achieving results for clients.

The consultancy, based in Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde, is shortlisted for its work for London-based eco-friendly retail business, The Used Kitchen Company, in the categories of Best Media Relations Campaign and Best Trade or B2B Campaign.  It also has two shortlistings for its work for Northumberland Day 2020, in the categories of Best Not-for-Profit Campaign and Campaign Challenges.  

The fifth nomination is for Catapult PR’s managing director, Jane Hunt, who is shortlisted for Best Professional.

The PRCA Dare Awards are organised by the Public Relations and Communications Association and the Northern region covers 10 counties, making Catapult PR’s achievement outstanding.

The consultancy’s business performance has been equally impressive this year, despite lockdown.  Catapult has won client accounts in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Surrey, Lancashire and South Wales.  These accounts span the sectors of hospitality, health and fitness, pet, food and drink and finance.

Catapult has also grown some of its existing accounts, primarily through writing content, in the form of corporate literature, booklets and monthly blogs and articles, for clients who recognised the need to be proactive during lockdown and keep in touch with customers.

The PR agency more than doubled its office space at its Preston New Road offices in March and has started to work with new affiliates in Cumbria.

The five PRCA Dare Awards North shortlistings add to another five national and regional finalist placings for Catapult PR during 2020.  Due to the coronavirus pandemic, results announcements have largely been delayed.

Managing director, Jane Hunt, says: “Catapult PR has worked phenomenally hard in the last year and right through lockdown, when we have been ideally placed to work with various new start-up businesses which either pivoted and reimagined themselves or which have been founded by people who saw it as the right time to pursue a business idea.

“Our work for clients in the past year has been commended by national and regional awards judges, despite coronavirus delaying some elements of campaigns or making them impossible, so we are absolutely thrilled to already have recognition for our results to date.  Some campaigns will be even more successful, as we return to something like normality.”

More information about Catapult PR can be found at www.catapultpr.co.uk