TrustPower Awards
If your voluntary organisation has been working hard during the past 12 months and deserves recognition, why not nominate it for a TrustPower Community Awards?
Invercargill City Council Community Development Manager Mary Napper said any voluntary group or volunteer-based not-for-profit organisation was eligible for the awards, which recognised past achievements or work undertaken by volunteers during the previous 12 months.
“It’s not for individuals but rather groups of volunteers who have worked together as a group on a project that they are really proud of,” Ms Napper said.
Last year’s Southland winner, the Teen Parent Unit, went on to place highly commended in the national awards.
Ms Napper said the number of volunteers in the community was declining. “This is a chance to acknowledge and praise the work they have been doing and encourage them to keep up the good work.”
The Invercargill and Southland awards are divided into five categories: Heritage and Environment, Health and Well-being, Arts and Culture, Sport and Leisure and Education and Child/Youth Development. The winner of each category will receive $500 and the supreme winner receives $1500, a trophy and an all-expenses paid trip to participate in the TrustPower National Community Awards.
Nominations close on September 16.
- For full details and nomination forms visit the TrustPower site (the page will open in a new window)
or pick up a form the Council offices or the Invercargill Library.
The 2010 TrustPower Community Awards recipients for Invercargill and Southland:
Supreme Award
Southland Community Education Programme: research, preparation of proposals, lobbying and development of the Murihiku Young Parents Learning Centre (Teen Parent Unit)
Heritage and Environment Category
1 Rakiura Heritage Trust – Museum cataloguing, collection and conservation
2 Tuatapere and District Promotion Inc
Commendation: Winton Rotary
Health and Wellbeing
1 Coastguard Riverton – sea rescue
2 Tuatapere St John Ambulance
Commendations: Southland Hospital Volunteers and Age Concern Southland
Arts and Culture
1 Waimatuku Pipe Band - playing at many community events
Sport and Leisure
1 Ika Swimming Club – providing swimming for people with a disability
2 Edendale Vintage Machinery Club
Commendation: Kepler Challenge Mountain Run Trust
Educational and Child Youth Development
1 Kowhai District Girl Guiding Southland – selling Girl Guide biscuits
2 Rotary Club of Invercargill North