Immediate celebrates Gold Signal Podcast Award win
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Immediate, home to trusted brands has picked up a Gold Signal Award for its podcast series, Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else, produced in partnership with storytelling lab Antidote.
The Signal Awards recognises the podcasts that define culture, celebrating the most potent, meaningful and unprecedented audio projects being made today. Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else, was awarded a Gold in the Activism, Public Service & Social Impact category.
Hosted by Maryam Pasha and Matt Golding, the podcast showcases communities across the UK who are rebuilding food systems, rethinking housing, generating their own energy, revitalising high streets and reshaping local democracy from the ground up, in replicable ways.
At a time when 73% of people in the UK feel institutions are failing; public debate is dominated by crisis and division. Yet communities are finding solutions that work. Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else is a national storytelling campaign exploring whether sharing these hopeful stories can inspire people to ask, “What can we do?”, and join in.
The award recognises the creativity and collaboration behind the series and the communities whose ideas and experiences it shares.
“I’m so chuffed that Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else has won a Gold Signal Award. A huge thank you to all the brilliant people and communities who contributed to it. I’m proud to have played a small part in sharing these stories with a wider audience.”
Michelle Whitehead, Sustainability Lead, Immediate
“This award is a great recognition of the power of the stories in the podcast.
The goal of Antidote Studio is to platform and make more visible the incredible demonstrations of what we’re capable of when we work together happening in neighbourhoods and communities across the country. These are not just our stories – they’re OUR collective stories – and our mission is to make more visible the incredible and diverse possible futures being built on the ground all around us, across the UK – and if we can get the funding to get there, everywhere across the world.”
Matt Golding, Host and Antidote Director of Storytelling
Listen to Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else wherever you get your podcasts.