TIGA, the trade associationrepresenting the UK games industry, has been shortlisted for two prestigious
awards.
The organization is shortlisted for the
Public Affairs Award and the Not-For-Profit and Charity Award at this year’s
Public Relations Consultants Association Awards (PRCA). Both are for TIGA’s
Campaign for Games Tax Relief.
In the Not-For-Profit and Charity
Award, TIGA is up against Mischief, Unity, Citizen Brando, Tricker, Tonic,
Kaper:, Shelter Scotland, Asthma UK, the NSPCC and Legacy 10.
In the Public Affairs Award, the other
shortlisted organizations are Betting Pitch Battle 2012, Fleishman Hillard,
Orbit Communications, Partner of Promotion, Glasshouse Partnership, Grayling,
Honover, GoughBailyWright, Queen’s University Belfast and AOA.
More than 100 judges were involved in
the short-listing process and the Awards ceremony will be held on November 13
in London.
Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA,
said:
“TIGA’s purpose is to strengthen the
UK games industry and securing an effective Games Tax Relief is critical to
this objective. Games Tax Relief will be a major boost to the sector when it
arrives in April 2013 and TIGA continues to work closely with the Government to
ensure that it will be implemented in a way that is beneficial to games
developers and digital publishers. I’d like to thank the TIGA team and TIGA’s
members for enabling us to progress Games Tax Relief. It is a great honour to
be shortlisted as a finalist in two PRCA Awards.”
Jason Kingsley OBE, TIGA Chairman
and CEO and Creative Director at Rebellion, said:
“On behalf of the TIGA board, I would like to thank the
entire TIGA team for their work on the Games Tax Relief campaign. I’d also like
to thank TIGA’s members for supporting the campaign. Our success in the March
Budget was only possible with the commitment of our members. TIGA constantly punches above its weight and
achieves significant goals on a regular basis: being shortlisted for these two
Awards is testament to this fact.”
Notes
to editors:
About
TIGA:
TIGA
is the trade association representing the UK’s games industry. The
majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house
publisher owned developers. We also have games publishers, outsourcing
companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership. TIGA
was awarded ‘Trade Association of the Year’ and the ‘Member Recruitment Award’
at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards 2010. TIGA has also been
named as a finalist in the 2010 Chartered Management Institute (CMI) National
Management and Leadership Awards in the category of ‘The Outstanding
Organisation of the Year Award (SME)’.
TIGA is an ‘Investors in People’
accredited organisation. TIGA's
vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games
business. We focus on three sets of activities: political representation,
generating media coverage and developing services that enhance the
competitiveness of our members. This means that TIGA members are
effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the
media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their
businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial
opportunities.
For further
information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on: 07875 939 643, or
email richard.wilson@tiga.org.
