Winners of the Print Futures awards came from sectors including print, prepress, paper, design and journalism
Highlighting the dramatic growth in winners, this year’s Print Futures Awards saw a record 78 young people between 18 and 30 receive grants to develop their careers in print and related fields.
Held at the House of Lords on 20 July, the annual Print Charity event was introduced by Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, who emphasised the rapid growth in both the number of entrants – 275 this year – and the number of grants awarded, up by factors of three and fifty per cent respectively, while suggesting that the industry could nevertheless perhaps “do more”.
Charity president Lord Black, executive director of the Telegraph Group, also pointed out the relative youth of major digital channels such as Facebook, Netflix, Twitter and Google, while reporting that the UK still has 36 million newspaper readers and 39 million who take content from their digital or online editions.
John Wright, chair of the charity’s trustees outlined the origin of the awards in 2002 and chronicled their rapid growth from only eight in 2012 to this year’s 78, while CEO Neil Lovell emphasised the breadth of disciplines as well as the geographical spread of entrants, ‘from the Shetlands to Cornwall’.
