Awards

CDS is a multi-award winning company.

• CDS has won two Institute of Internal Communications 2010 Awards of Excellence in the Internal magazine up to four issues a year; and Public sector reporting categories.
• CDS won the Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2008-2009 Awards in the New Publication category for the magazine Defence Codex.
• CDS won the CiB Regional Award for Magazine of the Year 2007-08 with plus for Jobcentre Plus.
• The coveted Best in Class Award and Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2007 Awards for the Environment Agency’s biodiversity report, Creating a better place for wildlife.
• Surrey County Council’s magazine for residents, Surrey Matters, won a coveted Gold Award at the Chartered Institute of Marketing regional PRide Awards 2007
• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2006 Awards in the Annual Reports category for the JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee) Annual Report
• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2006 Awards in the category Redesigned / Relaunched Magazine category for Surrey County Council's Surrey Matters magazine
• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2006 Awards in the External News Magazine category for Surrey County Council's Surrey Matters magazine
• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2006 Awards in the category Printed Publications for Surrey County Council's Jigsaw magazine. This is the second year in a row.
• Winner of the Communicators in Business (CiB) Best in Class 2005 in the Intranet category for the R S Components (Electrocomponents plc) intranet, designed and developed by CDS.

• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2005 Awards in the category Printed Publications for Surrey County Council's Jigsaw magazine

• Winner of the Communicators in Business (CiB) Gold Award 2005 in the Web Media category for the R S Components (Electrocomponents plc) intranet, designed and developed by CDS.

• Highly Commended in the Corporate Communications category at the PRWEEK Awards 2005 for INSX, Essex County Council's employee magazine.

• Gold Award for best newsletter at the PRide Awards 2005/06 for INSX, Essex County Council’s employee magazine

• Award of Excellence in the Communicators in Business (CiB) 2005 Awards in the category Financial Publications, Public Sector for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Annual Report 2003-2004.

• Winner in the Popular Communications Award 2003-2004 in the category Annual Report of the Year for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Annual Report 2003-2004.

• Winner in the Popular Communications Award 2002-2003 in the category Annual Report of the Year for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Annual Report 2002-2003.

• Finalist at the Information Management Awards 2003 for Interbrew UK’s Intranet, iKnow, and web-based Customer Service Reporting (CSR) software application.

• Winner of the Charity and Public Sector Publishing Awards 2001-2002 in the category Government Information Publication of the Year and Winner of the Communicators in Business (CiB) Award for Excellence 2002 in the Special Publications category for ‘Shaping our Future’, designed and produced for the Northern Ireland Department for Regional Development.

• Winner of the Communicators in Business (CiB) Award for Excellence 2002 in the category for Electronic media design for the CDS website, designed and developed for CDS by CDS.

• Runner up in the Popular Communications Award 2001-2002 in the category Annual Report of the Year for the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) Annual Report.

• Runner up in the Popular Communications Award 2001-2002 in the category Magazine of the Year for the English Nature Magazine, written, designed and produced for English Nature.

• Recognised by SOCITM for “one of the most improved local authority websites of 2001” for Malvern Hill District Council.

• ‘Highly Commended’ award at the Becta Guardian 2000 awards for our work with Buckinghamshire County Council on their Adult Education site.

• Winner of the 1999 Financial, Technical and Charity Publishing Awards (Public Advisory Category) for 'A Working Environment for Wales'.

• ‘Highly Commended’ award at the Financial Times Website of the Year – Public Sector 1999 for our work with Buckinghamshire County Council on their Adult Education site.