Dunedin Residents Recognise Importance of Volunteers
Locals have really got behind their volunteers with 98 entries received for the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards.
Entries for the Community Awards closed on Friday 15 March. The TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards, which recognise and
reward voluntary groups for the outstanding contribution they make to the local community, are run in partnership with
the Dunedin City Council.
TrustPower Community Relations Representative Jess Somerville says she is excited to be celebrating so many generous,
talented, resourceful and hard working volunteers through this year’s TrustPower Community Awards.
“I’m over the moon with the amount of entries this year! The Community Awards are all about recognising the hard work of
these voluntary groups. The work is often done behind the scenes and the volunteers work tirelessly and give so much for
the benefit of those who live in the Dunedin region.
A huge ‘thanks’ must go to the people who entered these wonderful voluntary groups as well,” 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 2013 TrustPower National Community Awards will be held in the Invercargill and Southland
region in March 2014.
The entries for the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards are currently being prepares for judging. The TrustPower Dunedin
Community Awards will be announced and presented at a function on Monday 6 May, to which all entered organisations as
well as those that entered groups will be invited.
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