Kerry Austin
Kerry (or “Doc”) is a long-time supporter of many Inglewood community projects, including the Taranaki Community Stadium Trust, the TET Stadium, the Lions Mini Putt and Inglewood United RF.
Val Deakin
Dance legend Val Deakin counts some of New Zealand’s dance stars among thousands of former students and has been a champion for the environment and women’s rights.
Hoani Eriwata
Educator, historian, tikanga and cultural adviser Hoani has been a key figure at iwi, hapū, corporate, local government, community and school events across North Taranaki.
Neil Evetts
Neil has brought his compassion, leadership and organisation skills to a range of projects and groups in sport, education and other fields.
Lynn Fitzsimmons
As one of the Taranaki Volunteer Coastguard team, Lynn has been one of the unsung heroes of many sea rescues, either on the water or in the background.
Gordon Hudson
Gordon has been a staunch advocate of mental health services and support for decades and a distinguished volunteer for a long list of organisations and served them with distinction.
Mark Leuthard
Mark is synonymous with the success of the New Plymouth Operatic Society, contributing both on and off stage, and has helped bring the Christmas at the Bowl show to the Bowl of Brooklands.
Robert McGregor
Rob’s work has helped shape Taranaki’s great outdoors lifestyle for decades from building huts and tracks to helping control predators.
Kevin Nielsen
Kevin loves a challenge, especially when it benefits the community, and he’s helped support those living with disabilities through New Plymouth Riding for the Disabled and other groups.
Elaine Schreiber
Piano teacher Elaine Schreiber is still going strong at 81 and she plays for the enjoyment of it with choirs, churches and rest homes and other events.
Hone Tipene
Hone Tipene started the Tuarā Group of civil construction companies with the kaupapa of reconnecting Māori with their mana motuhake and Māoritanga and to provide young Māori with the pūkenga (skills) to grow and flourish.
Nigel Williams
Nigel Williams has been bringing smiles to children across Taranaki for more than two decades with Variety – The Children’s Charity and helping with the transport for community and sports groups.
2021 Citizens' Award Winners
Adrienne Tatham, Alf Robson, Evan Davies, Rahul Radhakrishnan, Rob Tucker, Trevor Wylde, Gabrielle Patten, Michelle Ramage, Owen Williams
2020 Citizens' Award Winners
Mavis Bridgeman, Cameron Gillbanks, Judith Jolly, Judith Moorhead, June & Simon Moseley, Sue Philipson, John Pickering, Suellen Roy, Kathryn Smale, Dale Spurdle.
2019 Citizens' Award Winners
Krystyna Beardman, Anne Bovett, David Chadfield, Evan Cottam, Craig Dent, Barry Hartley, Dinnie Moeahu, Barbara O’Neill, Michael Green, Suzanne Smithers, Bronnie van Lith.
2018 Citizens' Award Winners
Suzy & Jamie Allen, Lynn Bublitz, Alison Cole, Grant Downes, Faye Dravitski, Bruce Findlay, Karen Gillum-Green, Jean Hastie, David Leask, Erica Perry, Elise Smith.
2017 Citizens' Award Winners
Nigel Cash, Elaine Gill, James Hook, Kit Lea, Maureen Lonsdale, Katrina McNab, Terry Parkes, Neil Sulzberger, Clair Tart.G
2016 Citizens' Award Winners
Gary Brown, Donald Frank, Frances Hume, Bruce Richards, Nigel Austin, Alistar Jordan, Geetha Kutty, Graeme and Marise Northcott, Malcolm Pearce, Anand Rose, Colleen Tuuta.
2015 Citizens' Award Winners
Denise Betteridge, David Harrop, Dorothy Vivian Honnor, Christopher Hinton, Juliette (Julie) Mace, Ronald (Ron) Millman, Jean Pierce, Raewyn Wolfe, Rae (June) Yearbury.
2014 Citizens' Award Winners
Clive Pryme, Barry Styles, John Howes, Jean Dobbs, Thelma Luxton, Joe Davison, Bruce Gilmour, Margaret Hurley,
Graham Cochrane, Stewart Erb, Jillian Suthon.
2013 Citizens' Award Winners
Carol Fisher, Barrie Stening, Elsie Tubby, Sally Ballott, Shirley Stephens, Shirley Baker, Iris Putt, Isobel Rose,
Sylvia Stokes, Keith Piper, Arthur and Maureen Sutton.
2012 Citizens' Award Winners
Don Bennett, Michael Fabish, Judy Field, Ashley Howan, Adam Jasinski, Aleister O’Donnell, Rex Phillips, Lawrence Prior, Rosalie and Willie Still.
2011 Citizens' Award Winners
Colin Drake, Ian Vickers, Nola Tucker, Maree Schumacher, Mike Nightingale, Gladys Hopkinson, Lois Finderup, Claire Patten, Alice Bovett, Barry Webster, John Huggard, Colin King.
2010 Citizens' Award Winners
Douglas and Barbara Ruth Ashby, Nora Banks, William (Bill) Bird, Cathy Dobson, Geraldine (Gerry) Kennedy, Vernon (Terry) Long, Kevin Richardson, Joan Roberts, Ronald Scott, Jim Shepherd, Don Taylor, Ralph Ward.
2009 Citizens' Award Winners
Grant Coward, Mary Gyde, Helen Johnson, Albert Le Fleming, Dr George Mason, Noel Nairn, Bruce Sutton.
2008 Citizens' Award winners
Beryl Allison, Bruce Ball, Paul Clarke, Tina de Vries, Mavis Hepworth, Gwen Herbert, Ruakere Hond, John Major, Tikituterangi Raumati.
2007 Citizens' Award winners
Rex Appleby, Doug Bell, Venna Byrne, Brian Chong, Wally Gillum, Bryan Hocken, Kelvin Jackson, Makiterangi Matthews.
2006 Citizens' Award winners
Bob Bowler, Trevor Corkin, Lorraine Goodwin, Dennis Iremonger, Roger King, Pam McAuliffe, Alan Parsons, Owen Paton, Violet Rowe, Reginald Trowern, Joyce Young.
2005 Citizens' Awards winners
Gabrielle Barr, Bryan Benton, Dianne Cook, John Cunningham, Alice Doorbar, Zofia Jasionowicz, Betty Leung, Stewart Maunder, James Pennington, Robert Pitcairn, Graham Walker.
2004 Citizens' Award winners
Mary Boekman, Rob Berry, Jim Boon, Joanna Wooffindin, Vivian Hutchinson, Janet Lean, June Allardice, Steve "Coach" McKean, Pretheeva Fernando, Kay Marx.
2003 Citizens' Award winners
Rex F Armstrong, James (Jim) Bailey, Mary Charles, George Doeg, Frank Gaze, Fr Gordon Kerins, Grant Kerr, David King, Robert (Bob) Mahy, Murray Moorhead, Fred Stones.
2002 Citizens' Award winners
Brian Clark, Ivan Dunbar, Ian Finer, Wayne Gaudin, Robert Godderidge, Thelma Gyde, (Inglewood), Robert (Bob) Kay (Inglewood), Anna Kete, Alistair Nelson (Inglewood), Colonel Jack Shaw, Murray Wells.
2001 Citizens' Award winners
Esta Wilson, Jenny Whitehead, Queenie Silby, Bryan Robb, Robbie Galvin, Margaret Huziff, Eileen Le Fleming, Ra Penn, Terry Partington, John Oxenham, Evelyn Lee, Pat Julian.
2000 Citizens' Award winners
Nancy And Ern Sutton, Marie Cresswell, Sue Henchman, John Hill, Graham Meads, Pat And Myre Montgomerie, Don Morton, Peter Pritchard, Jim Stokes, Zona Wagstaff, Barry Rosewarne (Posthumous), Dale And Paddy Whittaker, Graham Meads (Inglewood), Eileen Le Fleming (Inglewood), Pat Julian (Inglewood).
1999 Citizens' Award winners
Nancy Rowan, Ray And Mavis Petersen, Patricia Wells, Sue Matthews, Peter Van Praagh, Laurie Denton, Marguerite Martin,
Peter Dombroski, Betty Hill, Rene Sharman, Peter Dombroski (Inglewood), Nan Rowan (Inglewood).
1998 Citizens' Award winners
Lesley Adams, Dorothy Anderson, Margaret Bromley, Fred Carrington, Sister Teresa Casey, Nell Clark, Jean Matuku, Jana Partington, Judy Scown, Margaret White, Jack Whitehead, Judy Scown (Inglewood), Nell Clark (Inglewood).
1997 Citizens' Award winners
Margaret Ashman, Michael Brooke, "Hip" Fenton, Jean Gaustad, Alan Law, Orrel Mcintyre, Barbara Muirhead, Alan Spurdle, Jane Temata, Lorna Thompson, Lynnette West, Neil Wolfe, Orrel Mcintyre (Inglewood), Alan Spurdle (Inglewood), Alan Law (Inglewood).
1996 Citizens' Award winners
Don Brash, Max Brooking, Jo (Jocelyn) Connor, Ken Hunt, Brian Inns, Trevor Lye, Mary Mould, Archie Smith, Molly Snowden, Roy West, Ken Hunt (Inglewood), Archie Smith (Inglewood).
1995 Citizens' Award winners
George Best, Norma Geary, Terence D. Griffiths, Peter Harvey, Donald Harry Holyoake, Colin Kilpatrict, Beryl Lawrence, Jean Rogers, Thomas J. Ryan, Malcolm Vickery, Maurice R. Waite, Billie (Rena) Feaver, Colin Kilpatrick (Inglewood), Maurice Waite (Inglewood).
1994 Citizens' Award winners
Kenneth Charles Bacon, Mervyn Bain, Carla Brown, Ramona Reta Fenton, Marie R. Fletcher, Sylvia Hopson, Rene Jans, Virginia Mills, Dorothy "Dot" Mudgway, Victoria Kuini Skipworth, John David Smith, Dorothy Edna Wheeler, Mervyn Bain (Inglewood), Sylvia Hopson (Inglewood), Victoria Skipworth (Inglewood), Joan Smith (Inglewood).
1993 Citizens' Award winners
Ray Jordon, Lenard Bielski, Ngaire Anderson, Joan Mundt, Graham & Rena Wallace, Flora Mclean-Allen, Jean Richards, Raymond Rook, David Wilks, James Kitz Hammonds, Barbara Hunt, Robert George Richardson, Len Bielski (Inglewood), James Hammonds (Inglewood), Barbara Hunt (Inglewood), Joan Mundt (Inglewood).
1992 Citizens' Award winners
Robert James Austin, Robert Thomas Begley, Beryl Winifred Booth, Jean Cameron, Bernard John Corkkill, Daphne Laura Crone, Muriel Livingston, Roger Malthaus, Ivy Werenia Papakura, Billy Tutty, Marion Wellington, Alfred S. West, Tuti Nga Whaka Heke Wetere, Robert Austin (Inglewood), Daphne Crone (Inglewood), Alfred West (Inglewood).
1991 Citizens' Award winners
Harold Raymond Ashworth, Florinda Lambert, Joseph Martin Kuklinski, Doris Rowena Zrinyi, Peggy Bracegirdle, Esme Tamati, Maisie Ireland, John Chivers, Malcolm Grant Mcalpine, Edward Victor Malcolm, Jim Carmine, Maurice Phelen, Diana Margaret Gillies, Maurice Betts, Mac Mckenzie, Peggy Bracegirdle (Inglewood), Joe Kuklinski (Inglewood), Florinda Lambert (Inglewood).
1990 Citizens' Award winners
Desmond Corbett, Darcy Richard Crone, Susette Goldsmith, Robert & June Hook, Faith Huffam, Nora Patricia Hurley, Molly Kay, Colin Macgibbon, Mary Neds, Russell Price, Materena Marjorie Rau-Kupa, Don Reeve, Mae Robinson, Martin Silby, John Wells, Betty West, Joseph B Wetzel, Jean Williams, John Yandle, Darcy Crone (Inglewood), Molly Kay (Inglewood), Donald Reeve (Inglewood).
1989 Citizens' Award winners
No awards due to local government restructuring. The following names were on the Inglewood board:
Pearl Bennett, Bill Souness, Nel Simons, Valma Hirst.
1988 Citizens' Award winners
Barry Marsh, Victor Rhodes, David Mitchell, Peg Allen, Joan King, Polly Kopu (Inglewood), Deborah Richardson (Inglewood), Douglas Rowan (Inglewood), Kelvin Wackrow (Inglewood).
1987 Citizens' Award winners
Joy Bate, Edna Davis, ,Philip Gayton, Sister Annete Mary, Claire Powell.
1986 Citizens' Award winners
Norman Cashmore, Mervyn Chivers, Lionell Hall, Ann Moengaroa Horo, Parry James, Annette Lobb, Josephine Malcom, Helen Munley, Philip Phelan.
1985 Citizens' Award winners
Shirlie Fairey, Mona Horne, Ian Menzies, Robert Lamplough,Francis Morine.
1984 Citizens' Award winners
Don Denham, Dorothy Foster, Omer Hooker, Alan Ryan, William Scott, Bernice Wood, Fred Tucker.
1983 Citizens' Award winners
June Jamieson, Margaret Mckenzie, Joyce Petrove, Nan Simpson, Roger Tonkin.
1982 Citizens' Award winners
Joseph Stanley Anchor, Michael Henry Burke, Roy J Burkitt, Ronald Mervyn Christensen, Fred P Grundy, Cyril Moss, Marjory Irene Ross, Ernie Scott, Ethel Mary Shaw, Winston Lionel Williams, Ivy Elizabeth (Betty) Yeates.
1981 Citizens' Award winners
Errol Lawson Bland, Marion Louise Cornes, Norman John Turner, Mervyn Lucas, Kathleen Rangi, Elizabeth Gilhooly, Nan Sutherland, Dorne Arthur, Beryl Ellen Christina Beaurepaire.
1980 Citizens' Award winners
George Stephen Patrick Bartlett, Mabel Mary Bleakley, Francis Beatson Blundell, Percival Roy Kennedy, Raymond Charles Locke, John Mckendrick, Elle Mckoy, Lillian Myrtle Remington, Dorothy Rose Rogers, Barry Sefton, Eric Glen Wilde.
1979 Citizens' Award winners
George Roy Coleman, Elizabeth Douch, Ernest Melville Frank, F.M. (Cis) Gable, Violet Mary Gilmour, Mona Elizabeth Jones, Alice Elizabeth Kaye, Stanley Arthur Lay, Kenneth Martin, Herbert David Mullon, John & Shirley Murphy, Alexander Francis Watters, Deric Cyril Woodhead, The Late Roy Gilding Hawke.
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