Each year to coincide with plain English day, we present awards for the best and worst examples of English. The main awards recognise organisations and individuals who have genuinely made an effort to present themselves using clear and concise English. The infamous 'Golden Bull' and 'Foot in Mouth' awards inject a sense of mischief into the proceedings. All the award winners can expect to receive media coverage.
You can nominate your own company's documents or those of another company for the awards by sending us a hard copy by post.
We would ask for nominations for all categories to be submitted, either by post or email, by 1 November.
More on entry details for award nominations.
Documents and websites that we have worked on or edited are not eligible for the awards, for obvious reasons.
The awards are not connected in any way to our Crystal Mark scheme.
Our awards include:
- Covid Clarity award (for crystal-clear Covid information)
- Foot in Mouth award (for baffling quotes by public figures)
- Golden Bull awards (for the worst examples of written tripe)
- Heroes and Villains (for those who have performed plain English heroics and for those that have done the opposite)
- Media awards (radio, television and newspapers)
- Plain English awards (open category)
- Plain English Journalist/Writer (for the best news / information written-word communicator)
- Web award (for clear and usable websites)
- 2022 Awards
- 2021 Awards
- 2020 Awards
- 2019 Awards
- 2018 Awards
- 2017 Awards
- 2016 Awards
- 2015 Awards
- 2014 Awards
- 2013 Awards
- 2012 Awards
- 2011 Awards
- 2010 awards
- About the awards
- 2009 awards
- 2008 awards
- 2007 awards
- 2006 awards
- 2005 awards
- 2004 awards
- 2003 awards
- 2002 awards
- 2001 awards
- 2000 awards
- 1999 awards
- 1998 awards
- 1997 awards
- 1996 awards
- 1995 awards
- 1994 awards
- 1993 awards
- 1991 awards
- 1992 awards