Awards and Funds

For the Nomination form, click here (this will be updated each year, nearer the time of calling for nominations).

Confidentiality
Nominations to remain confidential until selection by the Councillors and recipients have agreed to accept their awards.

Eligibility:

• A long period of exceptional service by resident of the district. 
• Community service for which there has been no direct financial reward.

For further information on this Award, including details of the past and current recipients, please click here. 

Secondary Education School Achievers Award

2006 Recipients: Kirsty Allan, Keeneth Love, Elana Hawke, Mayor Garry Jackson, Anna McInnes, Alex Meares, Jessica Murchison, Sam Mossman, Gemma Palmer.

Purpose

• The awards are given to encourage innovation and excellence in secondary students who are residents in the Hurunui District.
• The awards are to financially assist students to further their study at either a secondary or tertiary level for the coming year – it precludes voluntary work.
• The Hurunui District Council wishes to encourage any students showing ability, attitude, and determination in any field, and from any academic or cultural background, to apply for these awards.

Criteria

• The applicants home should be  in the Hurunui District. It is recognised that some applicants may currently be attending a school outside of the area.
• The awards are open to current school students from Year 11 – Year 13 proceeding to further formal qualifications in the subsequent year (this excludes voluntary work).
• The applicants will be demonstrating a strong interest or special talent in a particular area or areas of academic, sporting, music, art or cultural life.
• The applicants will have a high level of ability, attitude, integrity, or ingenuity and may be in need of financial assistance to help them achieve their set goals.

Funding Allocation

• The Hurunui District Council has a funding pool available for allocation to worthy secondary students who may be in need of some financial assistance.
• The funds can be used to undertake further study or purchase material or equipment to assist the students in developing their special interest at secondary or tertiary level.
  Once winners are selected Council will arrange a presentation ceremony

Judges

• A selection Panel of 3 nominated Councillors and 3 independent external community members will provide a short list of candidates to Council for approval for the awards.  
• The short listed applicants will be reviewed and overall winners selected at a meeting of the full Council.
• Council may allocate the funding pool between worthy applicants on a district wide basis in any year, or hold the funding pool over to the following year, at its’ discretion.

Applications

• Students may either apply for the awards themselves or be nominated by another person.
• Applications need to be in writing, on an appropriate form obtained from the Hurunui District Council Offices.
• A written statement of between 750 – 1,000 words, with the applicant’s background and reasons why the student is applying or has been nominated for the award is to accompany the application form. If this statement is written on behalf of the applicant, the reason for this should be given, and the writer identified.
• Written referee’s reports are to be provided by 2 people, chosen either by the student or the person nominating them for the award and are to be submitted with the application.
• The Selection Panel may also approach community members other than those named by the students as referees if additional information is needed.
• Evidence of written work produced by the student can be any form including academic records, reports, drawings, articles, video’s etc.
• Any additional work used to support the student’s application is to be supplied at the time of application.

For further information on this Award, and the Application Form, please click here.

Mainpower Hurunui Natural Environment Fund

Hurunui Heritage Fund

1. The purpose of the fund is to encourage and assist with voluntary work that protects, enhances, explains or restores significant heritage values of the District.
2. The fund is open only to residents and ratepayers of the Hurunui District – individuals or groups – for work relating to either private or public land.
3. It is a contestable fund, in which there is $5,000.00.  That sum will be distributed among the successful applicants.  
4. Applications will be assessed by decision makers who are wholly independent of Council.  
5. The fund is not available:
   a. For work that there is a legal obligation to do;
   b. To compensate for work already done. It is intended to assist with the cost of future work;
   c. For the entire cost of a project.  It will complement the applicant’s contributions;
   d. To support projects driven primarily for financial gain;  or
   e. To past recipients of the fund.
6. The application must be a signed original of this application form.  The form can be handwritten, or it can be downloaded from here and typed. 
7. We encourage applicants to attach any supporting documents, such as plans, diagrams, maps, photos.  But please limit this to no more than about 15 pages.
8. Applications without any supporting documents will still be considered, but applicants may be asked for more information.
9. The decision makers assessing the applications are likely to request to see the sites.  No Council employees will accompany them onto private property without the prior approval of the landowner.
10. The Council hereby undertakes to all applicants that information concerning private property supplied in the application, or obtained when assessing it, will be used by the Council for no purpose other than for assessing the application, or for the publicity purposes referred to below.
11. By lodging the application, the applicant agrees that if funds are given to the applicant, the amount received and the applicant’s name and photo may be publicised, and used for publicity purposes.
12. Applications will be assessed during April.  It is intended to distribute the funds at a function in May.
13. The money granted is to be spent by the successful applicant within one year of the grant.  The recipient will be required to complete a signed “accountability form” when the funds have been spent, confirming that they have been spent in the way set out in the application.

Assessment Criteria
 

• The degree to which the work protects, explains, enhances or restores significant heritage values of the District.  
• The historical significance to the District of the subject of the application.
• Where relevant, the degree of current risk to the heritage values being explained, restored or benefited.
• The long term benefits or the work funded, including how it will be maintained.
• The efficiency, economics and feasibility of the project.
• If part of a long term project, evidence of the applicant’s commitment to it.
• The likely educational or social outcomes.
• The degree of ongoing protection for the work funded.
• The degree to which the public will have access to, or benefit from, the project funded.
  
  Please click here for the Application form.