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Left to right: William and Susan Curran, Master Glazier John Reyntiens and Master Communicator Sally Sykes -
Clarity in Charity Communications 2024
Tobacco Pipe Makers Light Up Science for Students
30th January 2025The 2024 Clarity in Charity Communications Award has gone to an engaging science campaign for schoolchildren.
The ‘What Lights Up Your Love of Physics?’ campaign by Physics Partners (https://physicspartners.com), supported by the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders & Tobacco Trade Benevolent Fund, was rolled out across 96 schools to encourage pupils to engage with the subject.
The Company of Communicators of judging panel was impressed by the campaign’s reach and impact in raising the profile of educating physics in schools. The panel was especially impressed by the sheer professionalism and creativity of the campaign with limited funding and the results achieved.
At the ceremony at Trinity House in the City of London on 24th January 2025, Master Communicator Sally Sykes and Master Glazier John Reyntiens MBE presented the award to Tobacco Trade Benevolent Fund Trustee and Tobacco Pipe Makers & Tobacco Blenders Court Assistant Susan Curran and her husband, William Curran, who is the Clerk’s Assistant.
“It is a pleasure and privilege for me to present these awards as my last act as Master of the Company of Communicators,” said Sally Sykes. “It has been really wonderful to see the spirit of charity flourish in these trying times and for the livery movement to play its full part in helping those very much in need. The nominations were of high quality, fittingly becoming of the traditions and customs of the City of London but also of the standards of professionalism of within Communications and Public Relations. I look forward to another successful batch of nominations next year.”
John Reyntiens said: “I am delighted to co-present this stained glass roundel to Physics Partners for their campaign which made them a very deserving winner of the Clarity in Charity Communications Award. I do hope they will treasure it because its high quality art is what we as Glaziers represent, and it is a fitting award for this competition and its winner. I would also like to thank the Communicators’ Company for their long-standing partnership with us and for hosting this presentation. Good luck to Physics Partners in their future activities, as well as the runners-up, Cyril Regis Trust. Both entries showed them very worthy charities.”
The Clarity in Charity Communications Award recognises excellence in communications by an individual or company that is not a professional communications practitioner, and who is also linked to the livery movement and/or the charitable sector.
The award is made in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, who commissioned the unique glass roundel presented to the winner, specially created by artist Emma Butler-Cole Aiken.