| 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. |
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| AWARD CEREMONIES |
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COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY |
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RACE IN THE MEDIA AWARDS |
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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. |
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| In 2003 it presented twenty awards across all media including
print, broadcast (television and radio), websites and advertising
media. |
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| 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: |
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Identifying,
negotiating and liasing with (15) sponsors |
Identifying
and co-ordinating (57) judges |
Editing 100 page souvenir brochure |
Producer
for awards ceremony |
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identifying winners
clips for broadcast |
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identifying music
for production use, and clearing
all legal usage rights |
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co-ordinating live
webcast |
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script writing
for the awards ceremony (including
various
addresses by CRE Chairs) |
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Visualising AV
design for awards ceremony |
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Satellite events manager:
private receptions at Royal Opera
House; Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
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Ms Dynamite
Media Personality
of the Year 2003 |
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ASSOCIATION FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT (APM) |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| In managing these two events on the same day Amanda Rayner Images: |
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Devised and structured the Debate – a classic event with a formal motion, ‘This House Believes…’ |
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Identified and co-ordinated the Chair, Lynn Faulds Wood, and the speaker teams for the Debate |
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Identified, negotiated and liaised with sponsors for both events |
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Liaised with Awards host GMTV’s Andrew Castle |
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Advised on administrational procedural methodologies |
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Attended planning and co-ordination meetings, working as part of the APM designated in-house team |
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Chair, Lynn Faulds Wood and the APM Debating Teams |
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The Awards dinner

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