Thursday night Steve and I put our glad rags on and made our way to BAFTA's headquarters in London. In these rather plush and prestigious surroundings we were gathering with some of the 24-7 Prayer team and other hopeful nominees for the Jerusalem Trust Awards.
Each year the Jerusalem Trust sifts through thousands of entries to find the best audio and video content in the Christian arena that year. Around the room were independant film makers, organisations like ours, independant radio broadcasters and lots of lovely people from the BBC. 24-7 was nominated in three categories and to our total astonishment we actually won one!
24-7 Prayer was awarded the 2012 prize for Social Networking. Well we are rather friendly :) The award was specifically given for our work around our lent season of the 24-7 Spaces podcast and the interaction and feedback it provoked on our website, as well as on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. It was very humbling to win, especially in the presence of so many amazing groups. We celebrated with a glass of wine / cranberry juice and some rather impressive canapes (a wafer cone of cornation chicken anyone?) It made for a brilliant night out and I wanted to say thanks to the two teams that considered and chose little old us for the award. Lady Sainsbury was a particular highlight as she shared her passion for sharing Jesus and encouraged everyone in the room. She was very lovely when I bumped into her on the way to the loo too!