Crystal Clear Day - 30 June 2000

On Friday 30 June 2000, we celebrated our first Crystal Clear Day. This was a formal ceremony for Crystal Mark holders at Manchester United's stadium, Old Trafford. We presented special certificates to the following organisations for earning a landmark number of Crystal Marks.

Platinum certificate (100 Crystal Marks or more)

• AXA Sun Life
• NatWest Bank

Gold certificate (50 Crystal Marks or more)

• Cornhill Life plc
• National Power (formerly Midlands Electricity Board)
• Norweb

Silver certificate (25 Crystal Marks or more)

• Birmingham Specialist Community Health NHS Trust
• Cambridge City Council
• Consolidated and Financial Insurance Group
• DAS Legal Expenses Insurance
• Lawclub Legal Protection
• London Borough of Redbridge
• Newcastle City Council
• Norton Healthcare
• Pinnacle Insurance
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
• Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited
• Scottish Power
• Searle

We also presented special bronze certificates to organisations that had not yet earned 25 Crystal Marks, but have made a particularly notable effort towards plain English:

• The Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority for their tireless crusade for plain English throughout the pensions world.
• Boots Pensions for sheer determination in working towards crystal-clear documents.
• Colonial Financial Services UK for their support in making Plain English Campaign's A to Z guides available to everybody.

Also at the ceremony, Aon Adjudication Services collected the Honesty Mark earned by their complaints pack.

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Plain English Champions

To mark Crystal Clear Day, we honoured the first nine entrants to our 'hall of fame' for personal contribution to the crusade for plain English.

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