As many of you will know, last night saw the first of our two Golden Hedgehog PR Awards ceremonies kick off with a bang. A great night was had by all in Manchester, as we celebrated the best PR talent the north of the UK had to offer.

We would like to thank everyone who came along and to congratulate our first round of winners on a doing some truly fantastic work in the industry over the past year. Here are last night's winners and nominees: B2B Campaign of The Year Winner: Frontier PR Ltd & Mobysoft – Progress: leadership in housing IAS b2b Marketing & Trelleborg Printing Solutions – The Institute of Contemporary Print Manifest Communications – Hellmann Worldwide Logistics Best Use of Research Winner: Aviva Life & Pensions & Wriglesworth Consultancy – Aviva Working Lives - Focus on Automatic Enrolment and Workplace Benefits BJL – Jacamo's 'Changing Shape of Man' Best use of Video Winner: Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire – ‘Be Part of it' Making a song and dance about Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) de Winter & Grosvenor Shopping Centre - Pop the Question in Style Greater Manchester Police - We are GMP South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Deadline Digital - Reel lives, real voices - Excellence film project Client of the Year Winner: Golden Square Shopping Centre – Gold standard with Golden Square Aviva & Wriglesworth - Building a Successful Partnership Community Engagement Campaign of the Year Winner: Havas PR UK & Asda – The Return of Leigh Toaster Cheese  Acceleris & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust - Children's Heart Surgery Fund - keeping heart surgery in Yorkshire Approach PR - Saving Ilkley Carnival! de Winter PR and Golden Square Shopping Centre - Get Creative One Marketing Communications & United Utilities - Think Before You Flush Stakeholder Group - TV Licensing Community Engagement Campaign West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership - Nuclear waste repository consultation Consumer PR Campaign of the Year Winner: Smoking Gun PR – Nissan Shows It Cares Approach PR - Saving Ilkley Carnival! Weber Shandwick Manchester & Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) - Welsh Lamb's Quality Time On-Pack Promo Crisis Management Campaign of The Year Winner: Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service – Shaw Gas Explosion Event of the Year Winner: IAS b2b Marketing – IAStival Journey9 - The Northwest Football Awards Manifest Communications - La Tasca: Taking Paella to the People Scarlettabbott internal communication agency & O2 Telefonica UK - Fresh Thinking Leadership Conference South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Deadline Digital - Excellence Awards 2012 Financial PR Campaign of The Year Winner: RMS – Equilibrium Asset Management - Adding up financial success Aviva Life & Pensions & Wriglesworth Consultancy - Protecting Family Futures, Aviva Life Focus on Families JAMpr - On The Money For Money Advice Group Golden Hoglet Award Winner: Lee Cullen – de Winter PR Anna Morris - INC Public Relations Sarah Crossley - One Marketing Communications Healthcare / Pharma Campaign of the Year Winner: Approach PR – Acorn Stairlifts - the gift of a lift In-house Team of the Year Winner: Greater Manchester Police – Corporate Communications Branch Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Communications Team Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service Corporate Communications Team RWE npower renewables UK Communications Team Sheffield Hallam University Public Relations Team Integrated Communications Campaign of The Year Winner: Havas PR Edinburgh & The Rank Group – Search for The Rank Gongman 2012 Acceleris Marketing Communications & Adapted Vehicle Hire - Promoting travel independence for disabled motorists de Winter - Grosvenor Shopping Centre's Fashion Flash Frontier PR & Mobysoft - Progress: leadership in housing IAS b2b Marketing & Trelleborg Printing Solutions - The Institute of Contemporary Print MK Things Happen & Meadowhall Shopping Centre - Meadowhall October Fashion Month 2012 - A Fashion Universe Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire - Be Part of it Wriglesworth & Aviva - Real Retirement Report - Highlighting What it Means to Be Retired in Britain Internal Communications Campaign of the Year Winner: Amaze PR & Coca-Cola – The journey to London 2012 IAS b2b Marketing - IAStival Scarlettabbott & United Utilities - Helping Life Flow Smoothly Wood Group & Lighthouse - Launch of Wood Group's 'Living our Values' Awards Large Agency of the Year Winner: Acceleris Marketing Communications Ltd De Winter IAS b2b Marketing Manifest Communications Stakeholder Group Low Budget Campaign of the Year Winner: Approach PR – Saving Ilkley Carnival! JAMpr & C.K. - Explosive Results! Lansons Communications & British Library - 65 million stories - Launching the British Newspaper Archive website Lucre & University of Leeds - Where Did You Get That Hat? Publicity Seekers - Turning the Spotlight on Low Carbon Lighting Limited Stakeholder Group & the MAC Marketing Team - Bringing the MAC to Belfast The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland - Panda Breeding Season Weber Shandwick Manchester & Destination Conwy - Llandudno Launches Warm Ice Cream Media Relations Campaign of the Year Winner: Stakeholder Group – Launch of Titanic Belfast Aberfield PR & Bone Cancer Research Trust - Making No Bones About Cancer Havas PR & Pets at Home - Purrfect Christmas for Pets JAMpr & C.K. - Tool Talk Lucre & University of Leeds - Where Did You Get That Hat? Manifest Communications - Premier Training International MK Things Happen & Meadowhall Shopping Centre - Meadowhall October Fashion Month - A Fashion Universe The Royal Zoological Society of Scotlan - Panda Breeding Season Weber Shandwick - Shoots and Arrives: Bringing Giant Pandas to Scotland New Agency of the Year Winner: HatTrick PR Ltd Not for Profit Campaign of the Year Winner: Acceleris & Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust – Children's Heart Surgery Fund - keeping heart surgery in Yorkshire Aberfield PR & Bone Cancer Research Trust - Making No Bones About Cancer The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland - Panda Breeding Season Public Sector Campaign of the Year Winner: Manifest Communications – Leisure Connection: More people, more active, more often Halton Housing & Reason Digital - Communicating Welfare Reform NHS NorthWest - NHS Heroes Northumberland County Council - Social Northumberland West Cumbria Managing Radioactivce Waste Safely Partnership - Nuclear waste repository consultation Small Agency of the Year Winner: Smoking Gun PR iseepr JAMpr Refresh PR Social Media Campaign of The Year Winner: Rippleffect – Everton Football Club - 'Stand Together' Highly Commended:  Greater Manchester Police – Don't be an #AprilFool de Winter - Golden Square Shopping Centre's Photo-Finish Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire - Be Part of it Weber Shandwick & Aldi UK - Aldi's First Official Facebook Page Stunt of the Year Winner: The BIG Partnership and Edrington – The Famous Grouse: Creating the world's largest bottle of whisky Grand Prix Winner: Havas PR UK & Asda – The Return of Leigh Toaster Cheese