On Thursday night we will discover whether we have won in either of the two categories in which we’ve been shortlisted for the CIPR PRide Awards.  We have been shortlisted for the Best Event and Outstanding Small Consultancy categories for the Yorkshire region.  2011 is the first year we’ve entered the awards and we are chuffed to bits at being shortlisted.  We’ve worked on many projects for clients where judges make judgements – the Northern Art Prize, RIBA Awards and Granary Wharf all fall into that category –  and recently we’ve been asked to make judgements too, on the selection panel of Big Issue’s forthcoming ‘Top 50 Influential Northerners’.  It’s strange to be in the ‘judged’ corner for once but it has given us a great excuse to invite along with us a lovely bunch of clients and journalists – another first – as well as to stop for a moment, take stock and review the work we’ve done alongside that of our peers.  Watch this space.