Big thanks to our sponsors for their support in 2018
When your document holds the WriteMark, your readers can be sure that your writing meets a very high standard of clarity. The WriteMark is an internationally recognised quality mark originally developed in New Zealand.
As New Zealand’s premier plain language consultancy, we believe in the social, ethical, and financial benefits that come from communicating in plain language. We help our clients to form better relationships with their own clients and stakeholders.
That’s why we’re a proud sponsor of the Plain English Awards. Supporting the Awards fits perfectly with our business values. (And it’s no coincidence that our CE Lynda Harris founded the Awards more than 13 years ago!)
We look forward to congratulating all the winners and finalists, and to working on a prize project with the winner of the award for Plain English Champion — Best Organisation. We also provide sponsorship in the form of Awards administration and project management.
www.wrightfamilyfoundation.org.nz
For 20 years, humanitarians Chloe and Wayne Wright have tirelessly dedicated their time, and generous financial contributions, to providing educational services that improve the lives and prospects of New Zealanders, with a particular focus on mothers and children.
The Wright Family Foundation sponsored the Best Plain English Sentence Transformation category in 2018.
The Guardians is proud to support the Plain English Awards – Annual Report category. Investors such as the Guardians rely on high quality disclosure and clear, easily comparable information from companies to make good investment decisions.
We believe that environmental, social and governance factors are material to long-term investment returns, and aim to integrate these factors into all aspects of our investment activities. Supporting this Award is a way for us to encourage improved disclosure from New Zealand companies regarding governance, risk, strategies and performance — both financial and non-financial.
NZ Super Fund sponsored the Best Plain English Annual Report category in 2018.
Immigration is really important for New Zealand’s prosperity and is an important part of our economy and society. We want to bring in skilled people who will not only contribute to communities, but can fit in well with our diverse culture.
We are proud to sponsor the Plain English Awards because we believe it’s important that everyone in New Zealand – including new migrants – can access information that is clearly expressed and easy to understand.
New Zealand’s growing diversity means that many people living here do not speak English as their first language and this highlights the importance of using plain English as a basis for effective communications.
To assist, we also publish Keeping it Clear — a guide to writing for audiences that are new to New Zealand.
Immigration New Zealand sponsored the Best Plain English Turnaround category in 2018.
Listen to Judi Altinkaya from Immigration New Zealand explain why they returned as sponsors of the Plain English Awards.
Streamliners is a Christchurch-based technical writing company which writes content that people across New Zealand, Australia, and the UK use daily to do their jobs. Our purpose is to capture, improve, maintain, and deliver knowledge in plain English so that our target audiences quickly get the information they need. We want our staff to live and breathe plain language, and we want our customers to appreciate its importance.
That’s why we’re proud to be sponsoring the 2018 Plain English Awards and helping WriteMark spread the message about the vital importance of clear communication and plain language.
Streamliners are general sponsors of the 2018 Awards.
Graphic Solutions is a small Wellington design studio, routinely going the extra kilometre for their clients.
Graphic Solutions sponsored the Best Plain English Website category in 2018.
Listen to Craig Christensen from Graphic Solutions explain why they’re long-term sponsors of the Plain English Awards.
www.printing.com/nz/studio/wellington
We help businesses and organisations to promote themselves more cost-effectively. We’ve been doing this for over 15 years so we are pretty good at it. As well as a large variety of print services, we can also take care of your design, creative and web requirements and offer some pretty nifty online solutions. Best of all, we’re real people and we’re local to you.
Printing.com are proud to sponsor the WriteMark Plain English Awards for the fifth year running.
We see the awards as being extremely important for supporting the government and business sectors as they continuously improve the way they communicate with the general public of New Zealand.
Printing.com sponsored the Best Plain English Document category in 2018.
TechCommNZ sits at the heart of New Zealand’s technical communication community. We are here to support, educate and encourage Technical Communicators around the country by providing regular networking and professional development opportunities. Together we are building a stronger, more future-focused profession that is making a significant contribution to New Zealand organisations.
TechComm sponsored the Best Plain English Technical Communicator category in 2018.
What we do in a nutshell:
Consumer sponsored the People’s Choice categories in 2018.
Our award-winning plain English writing software solutions transform your writing into a clear, concise and readable style. The savings to individuals and organizations in time, administration and increased sales are massive.
Editor Software provides StyleWriter software as prizes for the winners.
Kendons provides enduring value to business and offers:
At Kendons your success is our motivation.
Kendon’s sponsors the Awards by providing accounting support and financial advice.
Shelly Davies helps businesses save time and money. How? By giving us permission to write like humans. Using research-based approaches to writing better, Shelly builds our confidence and helps us write in ways that make readers want to hug us! (Or not — it really depends if hugs are what we’re after. But whatever outcomes we want, Shelly can get us there! She’s kinda awesome like that.) Shelly Davies Writing & Training. Because plain English has been cool since way back.
JUNO combines investment and lifestyle in a beautiful luxury magazine. The magazine caters to all investors, from the beginner through to the sophisticated. This high-quality publication explains financial concepts in plain English and provides in-depth market commentary from a team of experts. It’s all about simplified investing.
Listen to the team at JUNO explain why they sponsored the Plain English Awards again in 2018.
The Community Comms Collective is a network of communications professionals giving back to the community using their professional skills.
At Summer KiwiSaver scheme, we’re committed to helping our members be informed, confident investors. We understand that many people don’t feel naturally comfortable thinking about financial issues and concepts. We also understand that this is because the language used is often complex and confusing. So our goal is to be as clear as possible, using simple language and communicating in plain English. It’s also why we are an active supporter of the Plain English Awards.
The Summer KiwiSaver scheme is managed by Forsyth Barr Investment Management Ltd. You can obtain the Scheme’s product disclosure statement and further information about the Scheme at www.summer.co.nz, from one of our offices, or by calling us on 0800 11 55 66. Forsyth Barr Investment Management Ltd is a licenced manager of registered schemes and part of the Forsyth Barr group of companies. Disclosure statements are available from Martin Hawes and your Forsyth Barr Authorised Financial Adviser, on request and free of charge.
Sponsors
Thanks to our perpetual sponsors, Write and WriteMark! See our Sponsor page for the full list of wonderful sponsors for 2018.
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