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No Smoking Day is a national campaign that makes a big impact. Each year we help millions of smokers make a step towards quitting and thousands give up for good. But No Smoking Day relies on people like you who create highly imaginative events to help smokers who want to quit. For this reason No Smoking Day hold our annual Organiser of the Year Awards to celebrate the successes of the hundreds of people who get involved in promoting No Smoking Day.


Best activity on a small budget

Winner: Depaul UK, Jigsaw Project and Key Project, South Shields

Runner-up: Walsall Specialist Stop Smoking Service


Best Armed Forces activity

Winner: Army Primary Healthcare Service – Wessex Region

Runner-up: ATC Pirbright, Surrey


Best community or local partnership activity
(2 winners and runners–up as we had so many fantastic entries)

Winner: Cheryl Hagerty, 3g Development Trust, Merthyr Tydfil
Winner: Wrekenton Lantern Group, Gateshead Council

Runner-up: SUPPORT: Sefton's local NHS Stop Smoking Service
Runner-up: Wrexham Health, Social Care and Well–being Partnership


Best education setting activity

Winner: Closing the Gap (Co Tyrone, Northen Ireland)

Runner-up: Wennington Hall School, Lancaster


Best health setting activity

Winner: CPFT Fulbourn Hospital Smoking Awareness Group, Cambridgeshire

Runner-up: The James Cook University Hospital Stop Smoking Service, Middlesbrough


Best media coverage

Winner: Smokefree Warwickshire Alliance

Runner-up: Plymouth NHS Stop Smoking Service


Best pharmacy activity

Winner: Doon Valley Pharmacy, Ayr

Runner-up: Alness Pharmacy, Ross–shire


Best photo

Winner: Dudley Stop Smoking Service

Runner-up: NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Smokefree Hospital Services (Mental Health)


Best prison activity

Winner: Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service and HMP Foston Hall

Runner-up: Time to Quit Stop Smoking Service, South Staffordshire


Best use of "Time to Quit" theme

Winner: Tayside Smoke Free Services, Dundee Team

Runner-up: Environmental Services, Coleraine Borough Council


Best use of Big Cig

Winner: Phoenix Stop Smoking Service, Lincolnshire

Runner-up: No award


Best workplace activity

Winner: Barbara Barnes and Matt Turnell, D M Kineton, Warwickshire

Runner-up: South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust Specialist Stop Smoking Service


Most unusual or innovative event

Winner: Val Kennedy, Cowal Community Hospital, Dunoon

Runner-up: Smokefree Waltham Forest, London