Claire Whitelegg, senior manager at the Financial Services Authority, scooped an award at the Chartered Insurance Institute, Building Public Trust Awards 2019.

The accolade was for consumer marketing and awareness.

The awards, presented by TV personality Chris Hollins, were held in the newly renovated Painted Hall in the Royal Naval College in London.

Claire was joined by Hazel Gurry from the FSA, who was also heavily involved in the authority’s consumer work during 2018.

Claire was nominated for her foresight and energy in running an events programme putting on family finance days, following on from a successful ‘Isle of Man Pension Matters’ campaign, after the Isle of Man Government’s decision to bring in pension freedoms.

She was announced as the award winner for ‘a campaign that has kicked off a very strong collaboration and good working relationship between the regulator and advisor community, while also building public trust with an excellent educational event.’

Claire was also one of two finalists for the ‘Building Public Trust – Consumer Champion Award.’ The other finalist, Martin Lewis OBE of moneysavingexpert.com, was the winner in that category.

On her award Claire said: ‘It was a wonderful surprise to win the ‘‘Building Public Trust – Consumer Marketing and Awareness Award’ and an honour to be a finalist in the same category as Martin Lewis.

‘Raising knowledge and awareness for the Manx population of personal finance and investments is an important initiative about which I am very passionate.

‘I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who was involved in the consumer campaigns last year, within the authority, in industry and in the wider community.

‘Without that support and input we would not have had a campaign.

‘While winning the award was brilliant, the more important thing was the impact that the campaigns had on Isle of Man consumers.’

The FSA is continuing to champion the importance of good quality, relevant information for the Manx public and has recently upgraded the consumer part of its website www.iomfsa.im/consumer-material/consumer-awareness/ to help further develop work in this area.

The authority has also committed to participating in this year’s World Investor Week in the autumn.