Rule 5 has been nominated six times in the 2018 CIPR PRide Awards.

The news, announced today, sees Rule 5 nominated in six categories including the prestigious Outstanding Small Consultancy category. The agency’s work for the Wonderful Organisation and Blackpool Pleasure Beach were both shortlisted in two categories.

The shortlisted categories in full are:

• Community Relations Campaign
• Not-for-Profit Campaign
• Travel, Leisure or Tourism Campaign
• Best Use of Media Relations
• Best Use of Social Media
• Outstanding Small PR Consultancy

Agency co-founder Jules Wilson said “The PRide Awards are important to Rule 5. We were honoured to take home a gold award with our client Blackpool Pleasure Beach last year and we’re thrilled to be nominated with them again.”

The CIPR PRide Awards recognise outstanding work delivered for clients across the UK. The results will be announced on Wednesday 7 November 2018 at a black tie awards dinner at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate.

Rule 5, has been recruited to deliver social media training for Nando’s. The agency has been appointed by Gillian Harrison, Regional Marketing Manager for the restaurant company. Rule 5 has been briefed to create bespoke training for fifteen social media champions who work for Nando’s restaurants across Scotland, Ireland and the North of England.

“Our social media champions look after around ten restaurants each and deliver excellent social campaigns” said Gillian “but it’s always good to get an external perspective and Rule 5 came highly recommended” she added.

The training will cover current best practice when using all leading social media platforms and will also look at what changes may be in store and how that will impact on the work of communications professionals in the sector. For example, developments in AI are already having an impact in social media both in ordering deliveries and for customer service.

“Nando’s have a strong social media presence nationally and regionally” said Rule 5 Managing Partner Rob Brown “as part of the training we’ll explore ways the team can build their presence and take advantage of many of the emerging trends.”

The team at Rule 5 have been delivering social media training since the agency launched five years ago. The team have delivered tailored social media training for a host of national global brands including: British Airways, Wedgwood, British Cycling and ASDA.

The agency, which was founded in MediaCityUK, has moved to the brand new Arrive location in the media campus in Salford that is also home to the BBC.  Arrive occupies four floors of White, a 16-storey tower overlooking MediaCityUK. The brand-new space has been conceived as a home for tech, digital and creative businesses. The 4th floor, where the new Rule 5 office is based, also includes a 50-seater auditorium, communal hub, private meeting rooms, break-out areas with stunning views across MediaCityUK, as well as an outdoor roof terrace.

“We looked at various locations in Ancoats, the Northern Quarter and city centre” said agency co-founder Julie Wilson, “but MediaCityUK is in our blood.”

The move sees the agency acquire a significantly larger space, “allowing for ongoing growth and a forecasted 30% increase in the size of the team over the next couple of years” Julie added.

Rule 5 has received four nominations in the PRCA DARE Awards. The agency has been shortlisted in the Best Consumer and Media Relations categories for its work with Blackpool Pleasure Beach on the launch of the new ICON rollercoaster.  Work with the game-changing fundraising platform Wonderful.org is nominated in the Not For Profit category and the agency is also listed in the Small Agency of the Year category.

The awards are open to all parties involved in the use of PR for communications purposes, including; PR consultancies, in-house communications teams, digital agencies, marketing teams and media owners.

The PRCA DARE Awards ceremony will place at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in Manchester on the 12th July, where the winners will be announced.