Shine a Light - 2011 communication awards
The Shine a Light awards, hosted by
radio and TV presenter Vanessa Feltz at Pearson's headquarters in
London, were developed by The Communication Trust and Pearson
Assessment as the flagship event of the Hello
campaign.
Anita Kerwin-Nye, Director of The Communication Trust,
Vanessa Feltz, host of the Shine a Light Awards and Jean Gross,
Communication Champion
Shine a Light was designed to honour individuals, teams,
projects, communication friendly settings and communities that have
demonstrated excellence in supporting the needs of all children and
young people's communication, including those with speech, language
and communication needs (SLCN).
The following awards were handed out at the ceremony:
- Communication Friendly Award: Early Years
- Communication Friendly Award: Primary Schools
- Communication Friendly Award: Secondary Schools
- Team of the Year Award
- Team of the Year Award: Multi-agency
- Team of the Year Award: SLT
- Communication Strategy Award
- Commissioning Award
- Employee Support Award
- The Hello Campaign Award
- Hello Young Person of the Year Award
- Outstanding Achievement Award
A special thanks goes to BT and the Royal College of Speech and
Language Therapists for sponsoring the Young Person of the Year
award and the SLT Team of the Year award respectively.
Please click here to find out who the winners were.
Please click here
to find out more about the judges.
If you have won or been highly commended in the Shine a Light
awards, use this media
toolkit to help you shout about your successes.
It also includes some great ideas for Twitter and facebook. Please
keep the team updated with your activity by emailing hello@thecommunicationtrust.org.uk