It's already been recognised as one of the most popular and successful fund-raising newspaper campaigns in Fleet Street history – and now it’s official.
Mail Force – the groundbreaking initiative which raised a staggering £11.7 million and secured 42 million items of life-saving PPE for frontline healthcare workers in hospitals, care homes and charities – has been honoured at the British Journalism Awards with the event’s first ever Public Service Award.
The Daily Mail’s dramatic intervention was described by judges as ‘jaw-dropping’ and ‘above and beyond the call of journalism’.
Mail Force – the groundbreaking initiative which raised a staggering £11.7 million and secured 42 million items of life-saving PPE for frontline healthcare workers in hospitals, care homes and charities – has been honoured at the British Journalism Awards with the event’s first ever Public Service Award. Pictured: The Daily Mail's consignment of PPE medical equipment is pictured in Shanghai as it is loaded aboard a Mail chartered plane