Congratulations! The following entries are winners and finalists in the 2017 Plain English Awards!

Here they are, our 2017 winners and finalists.

Plain English Champion — Best Organisation

Winner: Utilities Disputes

Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team

Winner: Steph Prince, NZ Transport Agency

Finalist: Megan Lane, Empathy

Best Plain English Document — Public Sector

Winner: Superu — Making Sense of Evaluation — a handbook for the social sector

Finalists

Ministry for Women — Closing the gender pay gap — advice for employers
Wellington City Council — Our Wellington — Tō Tātou Pōneke (winter 2017 edition)

Best Plain English Document — Private Sector

Winner: Tower Insurance Limited — House Insurance Premium Cover

Finalist: KPMG New Zealand — Mindset. Trust. Adaptability. KPMG New Zealand CEO Outlook Survey 2017

Best Plain English Website

Winner: Department of Internal Affairs — Govt.nz

Finalists

JUNO magazine — www.junoinvesting.co.nz
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand — www.iponz.govt.nz
Ministry of Social Development — Studylink — www.studylink.govt.nz

Best Plain English Sentence Transformation

Winner: Jan Schrader, Stats NZ

Finalists

Steph Prince, NZ Transport Agency
Ministry for Women

Best Plain English Technical Communicator

Winner: Louisa Eades, Streamliners

Finalist: Wellington Region Emergency Management Office 

Best Plain English Annual Report

Winner: Z Energy — Solving what matters for a moving world. 2017 Annual Report

Finalists

English Language Partners New Zealand Trust — English Language Partners New Zealand Annual Report 2016
Kiwi Wealth KiwiSaver Scheme — Kiwi Wealth KiwiSaver Scheme Annual Report 2017

Best Plain English Legal Document

Winner: Parliamentary Counsel Office — Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Finalist: Cavell Leitch — Property Sharing Agreement

Best Plain English Turnaround

Winner: Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management — happens.nz

Finalists

New Zealand Insolvency and Trustee Service — Types of Creditor
Parliamentary Counsel Office — Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

People’s Choice — Best Plain English Communication

Winner: Wellington City Council — Our Wellington — Tō Tātou Pōneke (winter 2017 edition)

Finalists

Kiwi Wealth KiwiSaver Scheme — Kiwi Wealth KiwiSaver Scheme Annual Report 2017
Superu — Making sense of evaluation
Perry Outdoor Education Trust — POET latest news

People’s Choice — Worst ‘Brainstrain’ Communication

Among the entries this year the judges felt there was only one that truly qualified as a ‘Brainstrain’. (That’s got to be good news!)

Inland Revenue — Inland Revenue direct debit conditions