We’ve been clearing room in the freezer for our ICE awards, celebrating new nominations, and shooting content for our clients at Morrisons and Skipton Building Society. Not to mention it was our annual summer day, and our World Cup sweepstake was swindled by Adele. July, you’ve been sweet.
We were absolutely thrilled to score a hat trick at the ICE Awards for our work with Virgin Media O2, taking home the hardware for Best Event In-Person, Best Internal Communications Campaign: Large business over 10,000 employees, and Best Communications of Change or Business Transformation.
Together we turned employee scepticism to advocacy through Access All Areas, an immersive internal engagement experience designed to rebuild trust in the company’s network performance. We invited employees behind the scenes of VMO2’s £2BN infrastructure investment programme, to offer transparency, insight, and to build trust through immersive storytelling. It was described by judges as “Bold and honest.”
What a night to remember. And a huge congratulations to our partners at VMO2, Paradigm Creative Ltd and build the bandwagon.
Read all about our multi-award winning campaign here: https://welovechatter.com/case-studies/vmo2-colleague-engagement
We’ve been celebrating at Chatter HQ as we welcomed the news of receiving twelve nominations from the Recruitment Marketing Awards, five nominations from the Employer Brand Management Awards, and three from the In-house Recruitment awards. Win or lose, we always see nominations worth celebrating, and can’t wait to join our clients on the night to cheers to another year of fantastic partnerships.
Check out our 12 nominations for RMA Awards
Our EBMA nominations:
- KFC UK & Ireland : Shortlisted twice! Once for Best Brand Ambassador Programme and again for Best Use of Digital.
- Royal London & Medik8: Going head-to-head (friendly rivalry, of course!) in the Best Communication of the Employer Brand to the External Audience category.
- Yorkshire Building Society: Shortlisted for Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy—phenomenal recognition for a truly impactful strategy.
- evoke: Up for Best Management of the Employer Brand Following a Change of Mission, Positioning, or Management. Change is hard, but making it look this good is harder.
- Virgin Media O2: Continuing their hot streak, they're in the running for Best Employee Experience.
Our IHR awards nominations:
- KFC UK & Ireland & Morrisons: Both shortlisted for their shiny, candidate-first Careers Sites.
- Asda: Shortlisted for their brilliant video campaign targeting optometrists.
- Royal London & Medik8: Making another stellar appearance, both shortlisted for overall Employer Brand.
July had us cleaning the slate for shoots with Morrisons and Skipton Building Society
For Morrisons early careers, we needed to refresh their website content with some new faces and updated messaging. From spending a day at one of their factories, to filming in stores and at their head office, we met some fantastic people with a lot to say.
Spending some time in sunny Skipton, we captured video content and photography as part of our update to Skipton Building Society’s people stories section on their website. We paired people up and let them interview each other on all things life at Skipton, and even played matchmaker as two strangers left the shoot as new friends!
Watch this space - as for both Morrisons and Skipton Building Society, our content will go live soon!
This month we brought everyone together for our annual summer day, to reflect on the year so far and look forward to what’s possible for the rest of the year. Fuelled by snacks and coffee on tap, we split into teams and put our heads together on how we can find innovative ways to improve, grow, and level up.
Usually, these things come with the motivation that you’re going to hit the town at 5pm and have a big night out. But on this day, happy hour was anything but - as we said goodbye to our treasure, Tom Atkinson. Taking on a new chapter in his career, we can’t wait to see what he goes on to accomplish. But it isn’t a Chatter send off without a night of karaoke, a glitter stage, and a sash that says ‘I’m a traitor’. Tom, we wish you all the best!
What a disappointing ending for England. But Spain weren’t the only winners of the 2026 World Cup. Alex took home the sweepstake jackpot, with Eilis and Adele picking up the change on 2nd and 3rd place. But how have they spent their innings? Well…
With Spain bringing home the trophy, Alex won the grand prize of £20, and has plans to put it back into the Spanish economy on a holiday later this year. A full circle moment. Taking a tough draw with public enemy number won, Eilis plans to spend her £10 from Argentina’s 2nd place spot towards her visit to Dishoom Leeds’ grand opening.
But before you feel sorry for Adele - who took home £6 for England’s 3rd place and £2 for most goals scored - don’t. Because she had her fingers in so many other sweepstakes, that she’s actually won over £120 this world cup season! She’s put her jackpot towards her upcoming holiday, just to rub things in even more. But we respect the hustle!
Training through what feels like a never-ending heatwave has been hard on the team, but we’re made of hard stuff. In July we hit 470KM in training miles. For August we can only hope and pray for cooler conditions!
So far, we’ve raised £100 for Physcap, but we can do better! If you’d like to support a wonderful charity dedicated to improving the lives of children suffering from physical disabilities, hit the link below to donate to our JustGiving page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/chatter-x-physcap-for-children
July’s running playlist bangers:
- Bachelorette - Bjork
- Let You Go - Chase & Status
- Green Light - Roll Deep
- All my friends - LCD soundsystem
- Touch me - Rui Da Silva ft. Cassandra
