Awards and accolades
The awards won by New Reg Limited, the company behind PrivatePlates.co.uk, by the websites it runs, and by our founder, Steven T. Jackson OBE. Each one has a page of its own, and each page links to the official record so you can check it for yourself.
New Reg Limited and its websites
- 2026The King’s Award for Enterprise: InnovationAwarded to New Reg Limited for the vehicle identification and pricing system behind Car.co.uk, listed in The London Gazette of 6 May 2026.
- 2025 and 2026The Sunday Times 100Car.co.uk, run by New Reg Limited, in the newspaper’s league table of fast-growing private companies two years running.
Our founder
- 2013Officer of the Order of the British EmpireAppointed OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to employment and the community in Lancashire.
- 2019EY Entrepreneur of the YearOverall United Kingdom winner, and winner of the Societal Impact category, then the United Kingdom’s entrant at the world final in 2020.
Honorary Fellow of the University of Central Lancashire
The University of Central Lancashire made our founder an Honorary Fellow in Dec. 2011, and he uses the post-nominal HonF.UCLan on formal letters. The university lists him among its past honorary fellows for 2011.
Recycling Lives, which our founder built
How each award is checked
Honours and the King’s and Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are published by authority in The London Gazette, so each of those pages links to the page of the Gazette that names the winner. The Sunday Times 100 is a newspaper’s league table rather than a state award, so it has no Gazette entry, and its page links to the table itself. Anything we could not check against a record you can open is left off.
Read more about us, about our founder Steven T. Jackson OBE, and about how buying a private plate works. Questions are welcome on our contact page.