Multi-Award-Winning PR Agency

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An award-winning PR agency in Leeds

Updated October 2026.

Prohibition has won 32 industry awards since 2013, as reported in our news posts and listed below with links to each one. Our latest win came in June 2026, when The Build campaign for Martin House Children’s Hospice was named Charity Campaign of the Year at the PRCA Dare Awards for the North of England and Midlands. In 2023 we won a national PRCA Dare Grand Prix award for Black Sheep Brewery, and in 2022 we were named PRCA Dare Medium Consultancy of the Year.

32award wins since 2013, each one linked below
Grand Prixnational PRCA Dare award for Black Sheep in 2023
2022PRCA Dare Medium Consultancy of the Year
2026PRCA Dare Charity Campaign of the Year for Martin House

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What are Prohibition’s most recent awards?

PRCA Dare Awards 2026, North of England and Midlands: Charity/Not-for-Profit Campaign of the Year for The Build, Martin House Children’s Hospice. In 2025 the campaign earned 219 pieces of coverage, 21 of them national, with 161.4 million combined reach, and 77% of coverage linked to the Martin House website. The public appeal passed £1 million in ten months.

Read the 2026 award news | Read the Martin House case study

Before that, our 2023 wins were:

  • PRCA Dare Grand Prix 2023 (national): Digital and Social Media Award for Black Sheep, Drink Cask Beer
  • CIPR Yorkshire and Lincolnshire PRide Awards 2023: Gold for Best Use of Media Relations (Stockeld Park, The Play Panel) and Gold for Best Use of Content (Black Sheep, Drink Cask Beer)
  • PRCA Dare Awards Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 2023: Digital and Social Media Award (Black Sheep, Drink Cask Beer), Media Relations Award (Stockeld Park, The Play Panel) and Low Budget Campaign Award (Black Sheep, The Breathe Inn)

Black Sheep’s cask beer work earned 60 pieces of coverage reaching 11 million people. Stockeld Park’s child Play Panel earned 78 pieces of coverage and 4.5 million reach.

Read the Black Sheep Breathe Inn case study

Every award we have won, year by year

This list covers the wins reported in our news posts. Each year links to the story from the time. We count wins only, not shortlists.

2026 awards

  • PRCA Dare (North of England and Midlands): Charity/Not-for-Profit Campaign of the Year, Martin House Children’s Hospice, The Build

2023 awards

  • PRCA Dare Grand Prix: Digital and Social Media Award, Black Sheep, Drink Cask Beer
  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Best Use of Media Relations, Stockeld Park, The Play Panel (read more)
  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Best Use of Content, Black Sheep, Drink Cask Beer
  • PRCA Dare: Digital and Social Media Award, Black Sheep (read more)
  • PRCA Dare: Media Relations Award, Stockeld Park, The Play Panel
  • PRCA Dare: Low Budget Campaign Award, Black Sheep, The Breathe Inn

2022 awards

  • PRCA Dare: Medium Consultancy of the Year (read more)
  • PRCA Dare: B2B Award, Fentimans
  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Corporate and Business Communications Campaign, Taking Fentimans to OOH
  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Regional Campaign of the Year, Time for You, North York Moors National Park
  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Best Use of Digital and Social Media, Be Kind, Kurt Geiger
  • CIPR PRide: Silver, PR Consultancy of the Year

2021 awards

  • CIPR Awards: Best Small Budget Campaign, the World’s First Poo-Powered Pub for Yorkshire Water

2019 awards

  • CIPR PRide: eight awards in one night, including Outstanding PR Consultancy, Best Use of Influencer Relations and Best Use of Media Relations
  • Prolific North: Best Small PR Agency of the Year (read more)
  • Prolific North: Best Integrated Campaign, CEWE

2017 awards

  • CIPR PRide: Outstanding Public Relations Consultancy
  • CIPR PRide: Silver, Best Use of Digital, The World’s Largest Sleep Census for Sealy UK
  • CIPR PRide: Best Use of Social Media, Making Christmas Real Again
  • Prolific North: Best Integrated Communications Campaign, Interflora (read more)

2016 awards

  • Prolific North: Small PR Agency of the Year
  • CIPR PRide: Best Consumer Relations Campaign, Worst Birthdays for Interflora (read more)

2015 awards

  • CIPR PRide: Outstanding Small Consultancy

2013 awards

  • CIPR PRide: Gold, Best Use of Digital, Student Wire for Phoenix Software (confirmed in our 2014 news post)

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Our awards include:

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What did the award-winning campaigns achieve?

Awards are judged on results. The poo-powered pub ran for three days and earned 19 pieces of coverage, 72.5 million circulation and a slot on ITV Calendar. Black Sheep’s Breathe Inn pop-up under the Ribblehead Viaduct helped its Respire beer sell 42% ahead of the beer it replaced.

Read the Yorkshire Water poo-powered pub case study

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Our Award Winning Work

Lansinoh: starting conversations about the fourth trimester

Carvela and Kurt Geiger: the Leeds launch that unlocked a UK roll-out

Black Sheep Brewery: repositioning cask ale for a new generation