Regional Awards Recognise 75,000 Volunteers

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Regional Awards Recognise the 75,000 Volunteers in Greater Wellington.

Sport Wellington and Sport New Zealand are encouraging Kiwis to say thanks to the 75,000 volunteers who help make sport possible in the Wellington region.

In New Zealand each year, volunteers give 50 million hours of their time to helping others enjoy sport. But it will only take a minute to thank them with a nomination in the Sport Volunteer Awards.

You can thank and nominate any kind of sport volunteer – whether they’re a coach, referee, administrator, sausage sizzler or kit-washer – they all make a difference!

Visit sportnz.org.nz/volunteers for more information, to organise a thank you or nominate a volunteer for an Award. Alternatively, you can text 5588 with your email address and you will receive the details that way. Each nomination will generate a thank you e-card to your volunteer including a personalised message.

Sport Wellington will warmly invite 10 nominees from each of the three categories: sport volunteer, student sport volunteer and ‘the quiet achiever’ to attend an awards breakfast where their services to sport will be acknowledged.

An overall regional winner (announced at the awards breakfast) will also be in the running for the title of New Zealand Sports Volunteer of the Year. The winner will be flown to the annual New Zealand Sport & Recreation Awards where they will be presented with a trophy in front of leaders of the sport sector.

Sport NZ Chief Executive Peter Miskimmin says “the awards help recognise people who put their hearts and souls into helping out. Community sport in New Zealand can’t survive without volunteers. The awards are a way of saying thanks and letting them know their contribution has been noticed. I really encourage people to get those nominations in.”

For more information on the awards visit the Sport Wellington website www.sportwellington.org.nz
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