DID YOU KNOW…

We’ve been nominated for another top award!

Did you know...

The ICE team has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Community Relations Campaign’ at the “How Do” Public Services Communications Awards.

The awards celebrate the work of communications professionals across the public sector and our nomination is for a recent event we delivered alongside Young Addaction Liverpool - in conjunction with more than 20 of their partner services, as part of a Liverpool-wide Drugs Awareness Week.

This high profile, city centre event aimed to educate and engage with young people and their families. It included 15 market stall-style information bureaus, alongside confidential advice areas. Street dancers, local youth bands and Everton Tigers Baseball Team also performed on an outdoor stage, along with Radio City, in order to create a ‘buzz’ and draw large crowds of young people.

Crucially, the event also helped to promote closer partnerships and more long-term join up between different local provider services, in order to prevent young people from falling ‘between the gaps’ in terms of accessing help and support.

The Public Services Communications Awards 2009 will be held in Manchester next month.

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Major new contract to raise awareness of mental health issues

Our social marketers have secured a new contract to help raise awareness and reduce stigma around mental health.

Working alongside NHS Stockton-on-Tees and a wide variety of stakeholders, service providers and community partners, we’ll be developing and delivering a 12 month project to overcome the barriers people face in identifying mental health issues and accessing appropriate support services.

The initial insight phase of the project gets underway this month, and will see ICE carrying out extensive research to better understand local attitudes and behaviours around mental health. This research will then help NHS Stockton-on-Tees decide what practical steps will be taken to promote long term change, awareness and acceptance of mental health issues.

This latest contract highlights our growing presence in the North East: ICE’s clients in the region already include NHS North of Tyne, NHS Durham and Darlington, Middlesbrough PCT, Havelock Academy and North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus.

We also have plans to open a permanent North East regional office soon, to help us support our growing client base in the area.

Major new contract to raise awareness of mental health issues

ICE Creatives to work with world-leading university

We’ve just won a place on the University of Liverpool’s design roster.

Following a competitive tender process, ICE is among seven agencies chosen to help develop creative concepts which will promote the University of Liverpool nationally and globally.

ICE Creatives to work with world-leading university

Our creative team will work on various university publications, which are likely to include brochures, newsletters, leaflets and other internal and external communications.

“This contract underlines the strength and depth of our growing creative division, winning a place on the roster ahead of some tough competition,” says our CEO, Stuart Jackson. “I know the team will relish working alongside the University, to help maintain and develop their already outstanding reputation through innovative design and branding.”

ICE’s Design Director, Paul Wood, adds, “We’re delighted to have been chosen to work with a world-leading university on a range of creative ideas and concepts. ICE has a wide range of skills in design, branding and digital media - and the team is really looking forward to getting started!”