St Mary's Early Childhood Education Centre
Finalist: Best Plain English Website — Public Sector / Non-Government Organisation (NGO) 2013
Judges' comment
We are impressed with this engaging website. It is efficient, friendly, and effective, with well-chosen and appropriate content.
You know your customers well, and you’ve organised your site exactly for them. We’d be willing to bet the parents who use your centre give you very good feedback.
We also liked the design, with its delightful visuals that are so fitting for an early childhood centre. The tone is informative, caring and helpful but not patronising or twee (as similar sites sometimes are).
Media statement
St Mary’s is a community based early childhood education Centre facing the double challenge of increasing competition and cost.
Two parent representatives on our management team convinced us to invest some of our reserves in a web site to show who we are and what’s good about enrolling children with us. A banner painted by a staff member inspired us all and it is an important part of the site. Our gifted web designer used what we gave to create a site which has raised our community profile and increased enrolments.
To have made it this far is special.
Geoffrey Lee
Licensee