2024 Love Your Place Awards

Celebrating Waitākere’s environmental heroes

Nominations for the biennial Love Your Place Awards have now closed. These awards honour the incredible efforts of volunteers, businesses, and schools working to protect and enhance the environment in the Waitākere Ranges Local Board area.

Thank you for your support – we received an amazing 40 nominations and the judges have now made their decisions. The awards ceremony will be held at the Titirangi War Memorial Hall on Sunday 2 March 2025.

We’re excited to celebrate the achievements of our 2024 nominees with you!

The five award categories are:

Denise Yates Award: for youth (18 years and under) showing emerging leadership around local environmental issues. For 2024, the nominees are:

  • Eloise Dwyer
  • Fred Cannon
  • Eloise Dwyer
  • Fred Cannon

Karaka Award: for a school or school group taking action on a local environmental issue. For 2024, the nominees are:

Nīkau Award: for a business or social enterprise making a contribution to improve the environment. For 2024, the nominees are:

Rātā Award: for an outstanding volunteer group or organisation taking action on a local environmental issue. For 2024, the nominees are:

Kahikatea Award: for an outstanding individual volunteer taking action on a local environmental issue. For 2024, the nominees are:

The Love Your Place Awards 2024 are funded by the Waitākere Ranges Local Board and organised and hosted by EcoMatters Environment Trust.

The 2024 awards judging panel is Susan Hutchinson-Daniel (Sustainable Schools – WRLB area), Tyler Taua-Gordon (Te Kawerau a Maki), Carla Gee (EcoMatters), and Annalily van den Broeke (Matuku Link).

Past award winners

See photos from the 2022 awards.

See photos from the 2020 awards.


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