Great Response to Tararua Community Awards

An impressive sixty entries were received for this year’s Trustpower Tararua District Community Awards, and many of these groups will be celebrated at an awards night next month.

The Community Awards recognise and reward voluntary groups for the outstanding contribution they make to the local community and are run in partnership with the Tararua District Council.

Trustpower Community Relations Representative Jess Somerville says the awards help to recognise the people who put their hearts and souls 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 Tararua community has got behind their volunteers, and I’m stoked that we will be celebrating so many talented, resourceful and hardworking volunteers through this year’s awards.

“Sixty entries were received for forty-three different groups, and while not all of these groups chose to complete the process we are still in for a great night! I would like to thank all of the people who put so much effort into recognising these champions, as these awards really don’t work without the community getting on board,” 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 Award winner will take home $1,500, a trophy, framed certificate and an all-expenses paid trip to the Trustpower National Community Awards. The 2015 Trustpower National Community Awards will be held in the Dunedin region in March 2016.

The results will be announced and presented at a function at the Pahiatua Town Hall on Wednesday 16 September, to which all entered organisations as well as those that entered groups will be invited.

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