CIV
IC HONOURS AWARD
NOMINATION GUIDELINES 2020
Please read the accompanying nomination guidelines before completing this form.
This guide is designed to help you nominate (or re-nominate) a person for a CHB Civic Honours Award.
Central Hawke’s Bay Civic Honours Award
The Civic Honours Award is the most prestigious of the CHB Civic Awards and will be presented to individuals that have made an
outstanding contribution to the CHB community over a long period. The Award is awarded in recognition of substantial service
(usually of a voluntary nature or beyond normal employment).
Substantial service includes short term or long-term projects or activities that have benefited the Central Hawke’s Bay community,
adding to the quality of life or residents.
The Civic Awards Committee may award up to four Civic Honour Awards annually.
What are the CHB Civic and Community Awards?
Central Hawke’s Bay District Council (Council) introduced its Civic Honours Award system in 1991 to enable voluntary service
within the District to be duly recognised.
The Civic Honours Award was established at the initiative of the Central Hawke’s Bay Country Women’s Institute and the New
Zealand 1990 Commission to mark the NZ 1990 year.
Since its inception, up to four Civic Honours Award have been presented annually. In 2019, the Civic Awards Committee sought to
broaden the way it acknowledges and celebrates outstanding community service within the Central Hawke’s Bay District.
The CHB Civic Awards now provides for multiple acknowledgements of community service through two additional categories of
awards — the Community Service Awards and the Community Organisation of the Year Award.
Who can make a nomination?
Any two members of the community can nominate a person they think is worthy of a CHB Civic Honours Award. The only exclusions
are members of the Civic Awards judging panel. Nomination can be made by any two citizens of the District, or by two executive
officers of any bona fide organisation, association, club, or society based in the Central Hawke’s Bay District.
Nomination submissions should include sufficient detail of a nominee’s merits, not emphasising or confined to offices held, but
clearly showing the extent of a nominee’s involvement in a field of community service.
A minimum of two signed letters shall support a nomination.
A nomination must be signed by:
a) two citizens of the District, or
b) two executive officers of a bona fide organisation, association, club, or society.
Who can be nominated?
• Any ci
tizen residing in Central Hawke’s Bay can be nominated for their substantial service to the community.
• In exceptional circumstances, an award may be granted to a non-Central Hawke’s Bay resident, if the service has been carried
out wholly or predominantly in the Central Hawke’s Bay District.
• A nominee who has in previous years received a Community Services award is eligible for Civic Honours Award nomination in
subsequent years.
• An unsuccessful nomination, in any category, can in subsequent years be resubmitted for further consideration.
• Nominees who have previously received a New Zealand National Honour are not eligible to be nominated for a Civic Honours
Award.