Amanda Rayner won the much-coveted title of Awards Personality of the Year 2004 for ‘innovation, professionalism, service and achievements that go beyond the call of duty' in the Awards Industry inaugural event, The Awards Awards. It was for her work on the Race in the Media Awards.
 
AWARD CEREMONIES
   
COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY
 
RACE IN THE MEDIA AWARDS
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) established the Race in the Media Awards (RIMA) in 1992 to encourage informed coverage of race relations across all media in the United Kingdom. It now has the leading position in the area of ethnic minority awards and is totally self-funded via sponsorship.
 
In 2003 it presented twenty awards across all media including print, broadcast (television and radio), websites and advertising media.
 
For ten years Amanda Rayner Images had responsibility for raising all income and provided full co-ordination and event production work for this prestigious £1/4 million event, which celebrated Britain's multiculturalism. Tasks included:
 
Identifying, negotiating and liasing with (15) sponsors
Identifying and co-ordinating (57) judges
Editing 100 page souvenir brochure
Producer for awards ceremony
identifying winners clips for broadcast
identifying music for production use, and clearing all legal usage rights
co-ordinating live webcast
script writing for the awards ceremony (including various addresses by CRE Chairs)
Visualising AV design for awards ceremony
Satellite events manager: private receptions at Royal Opera House; Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Ms Dynamite

Media Personality
of the Year 2003
 
   
ASSOCIATION FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT (APM)
 
   
The Association for Project Management’s key objectives are to develop and promote project management across all sectors of industry and beyond. APM is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. It has over 13,500 individual, and 280 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad.
APM Logo
 

Amanda Rayner Images was taken on at three months notice in 2004 to redevelop the prestigious annual APM Awards, and structure the planned conference. Time restraints meant that the conference became the new APM Debate – an afternoon event that was held on the same day as the evening celebrity-hosted Awards.

The Debate was heralded as a great success with 100% of the audience saying they would attend the following year.

 
In managing these two events on the same day Amanda Rayner Images:
Devised and structured the Debate – a classic event with a formal motion, ‘This House Believes…’
Identified and co-ordinated the Chair, Lynn Faulds Wood, and the speaker teams for the Debate
Identified, negotiated and liaised with sponsors for both events
Liaised with Awards host GMTV’s Andrew Castle
Advised on administrational procedural methodologies
Attended planning and co-ordination meetings, working as part of the APM designated in-house team
 
Chair, Lynn Faulds Wood and the APM Debating Teams
 


The Awards dinner


APM trophies

As producer for the Debate and Awards Ceremony
Wrote both scripts
Visualised AV design for both events
Oversaw final production of both events
Identified music for production use, including checking all legalities
Co-Ordinated live audience response elements
Co-Ordinated production crews, including stage changes and redressing between events
 

By the end of the day’s two events the existing sponsors were already committing to 2005.

All work was done in full consultation with the APM management team

Amanda Rayner Images has now been retained to produce the APM Awards 2005, The Annual Debate 2005 and the association’s Annual Dinner 2005.

 
 
NOT OLD JUST OLDER AWARDS (NOJOS)
www.helptheaged.org.uk
Amanda Rayner Images created the NoJos for Help the Aged and provided four years' event production work for these awards celebrating the contribution made by, and for, older people in the UK including

identifying and clearing music for production use
script writing for the awards ceremony
(including address by NoJos Patron, Cherie Booth QC)
advising on AV design for awards ceremony
when needed helping to approach celebrity presenters
 
 
OTHERS
1990s – Sony Radio Awards
PR planning, co-ordination and implementation
1980s – SuperMum, Britain’s Best Teacher, Britian’s Best Milkman
all work co-ordinated when working for Best Magazine
 
 
   

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