CIC’s ‘You First’ Magazine has been praised as “heart-warming, fun, compelling and oozing dedication” by judges of this years’ Communicators in Business awards.
Whilst your quarterly magazine didn’t make the short-list for the “best magazine” in this highly competitive national awards, we received positive in-depth feedback and marks of 4 out of 5 (1 is poor and 5 is excellent).
Describing You First as a; “terrific little unpretentious magazine” the judge commented that “CIC’s ethos of Putting Individuals First and defending their right to dignity, independence and choice, are very well reflected. If any magazine can be said to care, this one does.”
Our news and community pages were commended as being “genuinely newsy”, with the judge remarking that “even as an outsider, one wants to read these short, chunky little items.”
It was also observed that the “smile count is huge…” amongst people pictured in You First “…they are obviously genuine here, and the reader simply has to smile along with them.”
Acknowledging that the “diversity of the readership is great”, the judge commended our “informal” and “familiar” writing style as “just right”.
The only criticism was “ design”. The judge felt that “it does need a little more work to make even better use of the terrific material it contains.”
CIC’s communications and marketing team are very pleased with the judges feedback and plan to use their comments to make further improvements.
You First is your magazine, and its success is due to the support of the CIC community, so please continue to contribute to by sending your photographs and stories.
To download copies of the latest edition of You First click here.
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