From getting a sweep of broadcast coverage to rubbing shoulders with national journalists and picking up awards, 2025 has been nothing short of action packed for STORY.
We’ve served up some stellar results for our clients, never forgetting to bring our ‘PR Punk’ vibes to everything we do.
But what were our top highlights across the team? Account Director Hannah Albone has rounded up some of the best of the best…
PRCA DARE MIDLANDS AWARDS
Our highlight for 2025 had to be our wins at the PRCA Dare Midlands.
Everyone loves getting their glad rags on for an award ceremony, for Team STORY, we were raring to go when it came to the PRCA DARE Midlands Awards in June.
Having been successful winners in 2022 and 2023, we were ready to come back and claim our crown for a third time. We were nominated in four categories:
- B2B Award – for our work with the British Business Bank in ‘Driving Entrepreneurship’
- Low Budget Campaign – for our campaign with Conference Aston and their ‘green Christmas dinner menu’
- Event/Launch of the Year – for putting the spotlight on The Security Event
- Media Relations – for our work with ACCA on ‘Accountancy Activism’
STORY took home the Media Relations and Low Budget Campaign awards, with a highly commended in the B2B Award category.
To top it off, our founder and MD Amanda Lowe received the Midlands PR Professional of the Year, having been praised by the judges for her journey from kitchen table business to multi award winning agency.
NEW OFFICES IN THE JQ
STORY found a new home in 2025 – though we didn’t go far, staying true to our Birmingham roots. We made the jump from Brindleyplace to the Jewellery Quarter in March 2025, settling right into our new home at The Jointworks.
This fun and vibrant co-working space immediately welcomed us, and we’ve felt right at home from day one. As has Spike, our resident office dog!
FILM & VIDEO FUN
STORY Studio continues to grow year on year, and 2025 saw the team hitting the road for some new adventures. From filming small business case studies across the whole of the Midlands, heading down to Kent to learn all about food logistics, and finishing off the year by heading to Scotland and Newcastle to learn more about electrical wholesale.
JOURNALISTS + PR RELATIONSHIPS
As PR pros, we know this is an industry all about relationships. That’s not just clients either – journalists, editors, producers and more are all vital contacts for us, and we take the time to make sure they know how appreciated they are. We’ve visited national journalists in London, tapped up new regional contacts over the phone, and met face to face with TV producers and journalists on site for all kinds of filming opportunities.
BROADCAST SUCCESS
STORY loves a bit of broadcast – unsurprising, given we have some excellent former broadcast journalists in our team. The excitement of pulling off successful TV or radio coverage never gets old, and we’ve had a truly bumper year for it in 2025.
Radio coverage has been secured on stations such as Hits Radio Lincoln, BBC Northamptonshire, Heart Radio, BBC WM, Capital WM and Hits Radio Birmingham.
We’ve also scored TV success on ITV Central, BBC Midlands Today and BBC East Midlands Today on multiple occasions. Our work has helped put the spotlight on cancer risks in firefighters, careers and skills for young people, new changes in safety laws for events, and a new food hub initiative to help people in need across the Midlands.
