All entries will be judged by a UK based jury of creative people. The Creative Circle invites all UK based creative people to register online to be involved in the judging process. There are 3 rounds of judging. Two of these are conducted online with the final, Gold round, being chaired by a Foreperson of each specialist Gold Jury at a UK venue. Round One and Two are online where each entry is scored out of 10 by the online creative community. The highest scoring entries after the two online rounds then progress to be judged by the live Gold jury. Gold juries are populated by experts in a specialist field. Winning an award at the Creative Circle is when the entry reaches a standard. In any one category there may be many winners or if the standard is not reached then there may be no awards given.
We will always attempt to have our Gold juries balanced with representation of experience, gender, and diversity. In our live juries we encourage debate and discussion that proceeds the voting. The Gold judges decide whether each entry is worthy of winning an award of either Gold, Silver or Bronze by a unanimous vote. The Creative Circle is not a matter of first past the post. The awards are given when the work reflects the standard required. There can be multiple winners of each award in any one category or no awards at all. If any of the judges have a relationship with a piece of work being voted on they will be asked to leave the judging room and abstain from voting on that piece of work. We arrange a gathering of all of the Forepersons to discuss and agree which of the Gold winners is our Grand Prix, Gold of Golds which is the most outstanding piece of work from the past year in the UK.
At all voting stages, each judge is prevented from voting for entries that they have any relationship with. The decision of the Juries in all matters relating to the awarding of prizes will be final and binding.
Gold winners are presented on stage at the award ceremony. Silver and Bronze award winners receive a certificate. The Jury may choose more than one entry in each category as being worthy of winning either Gold, Silver or Bronze. Or they may decide there are no worthy award winners.
The Talent Categories, are purely decided by the Judges online as the Creative Communities choice.
The Company Awards, are an accumulative score/result of all of the awards won across all categories.
All awards will be given to the entrant companies. Duplicate trophies can be purchased by other participating parties after the awards ceremony.
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