Our Banks Peninsula Community Service Awards give well-deserved recognition to the people who make our communities better places to live.
They are a way of thanking and honouring volunteers who, without pay and with little recognition, demonstrate dedication and passion, inspiring others to make service a central part of their lives.
Whether for youth, older adults, education, culture, church, recreation, sport or community service fields, we want to ensure volunteers are thanked and honoured for their dedication.
We only find out about these people through you. If you know of someone who deserves recognition for their community service, nominate them for a Community Service Award.
For Banks Peninsula, CSAs are held every three years. The next CSA will be held in 2027.
Previous recipients
- Akaroa Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Warner Russell
- Karen Young
- Karen Colyer
- Joy McLeod
- Christine Turner
- Thomas Kulpe
- Heather Williams
- Libby Ornsby
- Te One Tini
- Marie Rhodes
- Kerry Little
- Jenny Healey
- Dave Hammond
- Richard Suggate
- Karen Banwell
- Valerie Peak
- Sheryl Stanbury
- Trish Manson
- Darryl Cribb
- Kerry McCarthy (posthumous)
- Flora McGregor
- Sue-Ellen Sandilands
- Ann Jolliffe
- Matt Ledgerwood & Bianca McKinnon-Gee
- Juliet Ruth Adams
- Helen Braithwaite
- John Keith Watson
- Andrew Mark Norris
- Al Park
- Frances Wilems
- George James Birt
- Pete Timothy Ozich
- Jessica Erin Armstrong
- Raymond Adams
- Helen Chambers
- Brian Downey
- Colin McLeod
- Clinton Norris
- Helen Sellwood
- Henry Couch
- Emma Odering
- Trevor Bedford
- Kate Clare
- Vincent Hamilton Burke
- Annelies Pekelharing
- Kathy Bisman
- Karen Buchanan
- Kirsten Hartley
- Sandra Innes
- Chief Fire Officer David Irving &
- the Little River Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Marilyn Masefield
- Robert Masefield
- Chief Fire Officer Kim Stewart &
- the Akaroa Volunteer Fire Brigade &
- Akaroa First Response Team
- Patsy Turner
- Chris Walker
- Gary Broker
- (Posthumous Award)
- Chief Fire Officer Mark Buckley &
- the Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Chief Fire Officer Donald Cameron &
- Diamond Harbour Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Wendy Coles
- Douglas Couch
- Peter Dawson &
- the Order of St John Lyttelton Ambulance Service
- Claire Findlay
- Del Hurley
- Julie Lee
- Ken Maynard
- Chief Fire Officer Andrew Norris &
- the Governors Bay Volunteer Fire Brigade &
- Rural Fire Force
- Patricia Owen
- Vivien Smith
- Ann Stanaway
- Alan Goodmanson
- Wendy Everingham
- Stewart Noble
- Stanley Smith
- Ross May
- Sue Winter
- Kathleen Bessant
- Gilbert Stace
- Noeline Allan
- Ken Maynard
- Paul Pritchett
- John Cleaver
- Helen Nugteren
- Dorothy Brown
- Fran Macfarlane
- John Sims
- Russell Ward
- Andrew Norris
- Nicki Palmer
- John Riminton
- Alice Tyro
- Wendy McKay
- Miriam Stace
- Anthony Lightburn
- Flora McGregor
- Melville Rehu
- Antony Aitken
- Lenore Tredennick
- Arthur Erdman
- Mary Stapylton-Smith
- Alison Ross
- Bob Palmer
- Alice Small
- Patricia Laird
- Kate Horan
- Mike Capon
- Hilda Copus
- Gordon Kirk
- Simon Laidlaw
- Nathan Tozer
- Sue Reardon
- Cherie Morton
- Frances Conradie
- Barry Jarden
- Adrienne Tissiman
- Judith Guthrey
- Thomas Hay
- Douglas Cresswell
- Averil Mills
- Malcolm Pearson
- Rehana Parata
- Paul St John
- Charles Dudley
- George Lucking
- Don McElvey
- Maurice Leech
- Baden Norris
- Paula Wilkinson
- Barry Bowater
- Dorothy Van der Meer
- Coyla Olliver
- Helen Smith
- Jack Hussey
- Sister Thecla Pierce
- Anthony Lester
- Robert Norris
- Norma Thurlow
- Ben Faulkner
- Colin Faulkner
- Christine & Keith Mauger
- Graeme Bachop
- Patricia O'Donovan
- Allan Tcker (Posthumous)
- Norma Andrews
- Bert Thurlow
- Carol Cornish
- Lachie Griffen
- Fred Dawson