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Solid Response to Rotorua District’s Community Awards

Solid Response to Rotorua District’s Community Awards


With thirty-eight entries received for the Trustpower Rotorua District Community Awards, locals have really got behind their volunteers.

The Trustpower Rotorua District Community Awards, which recognise and reward voluntary groups for the outstanding contribution they make to the local community, are run in partnership with the Rotorua District Council. Entries for the Community Awards closed on Friday 2 May.

Trustpower Community Relations Representative Jess Somerville says the Trustpower Community Awards help to recognise the people who put their heart and soul into helping out.

“The generosity of volunteers and the variety of projects they lend a hand to for their local community never ceases to amaze me. Once again the Rotorua community has got behind their community, and I’m stoked that we will be celebrating so many talented, resourceful and hard working volunteers through this year’s Trustpower Community Awards.

“I would like to thank all of the people who put so much effort into the thirty-eight entries this year,” says Miss Somerville.

The Awards cover five categories; Heritage and Environment, Health and Wellbeing, Arts and Culture, Sport and Leisure, and Education and Child/Youth Development. The category winners receive $500 and runners-up receive $250.

The Supreme Winner will take home $1,500, a trophy, framed certificate and an all-expenses paid trip to the Trustpower National Community Awards. The 2014 Trustpower National Community Awards will be held in the Wellington region in March 2015.

The entries for the Trustpower Rotorua District Community Awards are currently being prepared for judging with the results to be announced and presented at a function on Monday 23 June, to which all entered organisations as well as those that entered groups will be invited.

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