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This is an annual award, given to what we consider to be the clearest website of the year.
The 2011 winner is Mike Crockart MP, Edinburgh West for www.mikecrockartmp.com
Plain English information for constituents of Edinburgh West.
“I’m delighted to have won this year’s Plain English Web Award.
My website is the first contact that many of my constituents have with me, so it’s crucial that it is accessible and easy to use.
“I am very pleased to be working with the Plain English Campaign to try to get people communicating in a straightforward and effective way. I hope that during the coming year we can get a lot more companies and institutions to drop the gobbledygook!”
Mike Crockart MP, Edinburgh West
Plain English Website runners-up
Channel 4 for their FactCheck blog
Plain English summaries and investigation of politicians’ claims.
Nominated by: anonymous.
Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust www.jostrust.org.uk
Information for patients and carers.
Nominated by: Nadine Howlett.
The Cochrane Collaboration Cochrane Summaries
Plain English summaries of healthcare information.
Nominated by: Liz Lesquereux.
“The Cochrane Collaboration believes that information is the building block of change. For that change to occur, evidence of the effects of medical treatments (or the lack thereof) must be available to the public. Cochrane Summaries (http://summaries.cochrane.org) provides those details in plain language so that consumers can make informed decisions about their health care. The Collaboration is the preeminent source for appraisals of medical trials, but those conclusions are only useful to the people they reach. Plain language summaries achieve this goal.”
Catherine McIlwain, The Cochrane Collaboration
Traffic Signs and Meanings www.trafficsignsandmeanings.co.uk
Information about traffic signs in the UK.
Nominated by: anonymous.
People’s Voices www.peoplesvoices.org.uk
Information about free services for people with disabilities.
Nominated by: Anne Inglis.
Our judges look for a site that:
- is written in plain English;
- is attractive, but not at the expense of clarity;
- makes it easy for the reader to find their way around; and
- makes it easy for the reader to get the information they are looking for.
The contest is open to any website except those that Plain English Campaign's editing staff have worked on, or those with our Internet Crystal Mark.
To nominate a site, please e-mail us with the address. You can nominate your own site or somebody else's. The closing date for entries for the 2010 awards is 29 October 2010. We will contact the winners in November. |
