TASMANIA
Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards
- Describe your achievements and field of endeavour. Provide examples of initiative, planning, management and/or leadership
- What impact does your achievements have on the community and who benefits?
- List or estimate the number of hours contributed paid/unpaid
- Advise any barriers/difficulties and how they have been overcome (if any)
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
- Description of work placements and the skills and assistance provided
- Outline the assistance, training and/or education provided
- Barriers or difficulties and how they have been overcome
- Outline the employment and support you have provided to date
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your contribution and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
- Can you describe your initiative or project and how it specifically cares for and supports your community?
- What inspired you to start caring for your community through this initiative, and what motivates you to continue your impactful work?
- What significant achievements or impacts have resulted from your commitment to caring for your community?
- How do you engage and collaborate with community members to ensure your caring efforts are impactful?
- Looking ahead, what future goals or developments do you have planned to further enhance your caring for the community?
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
Education plays a critical role in shaping strong, connected
communities. Catholic Education Tasmania is proud to sponsor the Education
Impact & Community Partnership Award, recognising individuals, schools,
teams, or initiatives that are making a meaningful difference in the lives of
young people through education.
This award celebrates those who demonstrate a clear and measurable impact on
learners, while also building strong, collaborative relationships between
schools, families, and communities.
Nominees may include Primary, Secondary, Senior Secondary educators, school teams, or partnerships that extend beyond the classroom to create lasting positive outcomes.
Nominees will demonstrate:
- Demonstrates a positive and lasting impact on young people through learning, wellbeing, engagement, and pathways opportunities.
- Builds strong, collaborative partnerships with families, community organisations, and other stakeholders to strengthen connections between education and community.
- Uses inclusive, equitable, and responsive approaches that support the diverse needs of learners and improve access to opportunity for all.
- Shows leadership and collaboration beyond their immediate role, including meaningful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, perspectives, and priorities.
Questions
- Provide an overview of the nominee (individual, team, or initiative), including their context and purpose.
- Describe the impact the nominee has had on young people, including learning, wellbeing, engagement, or future pathways. Include examples where possible.
- How has the nominee worked with families, community organisations, or other partners to achieve outcomes?
- How does the nominee respond to the diverse needs of learners and their communities?
- What evidence is there that this work has had lasting impact, or has the potential to grow over time?
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
The EPA Sustainability Award (Community) acknowledges businesses and/or organisations from any community sector who have developed and implemented projects or initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in preventing pollution, conserving energy and water, minimising waste and maximising resource efficiency.
Submissions should be for a project or initiative that results in measurable improvements in any or all of the following areas: energy efficiency, water conservation, resource efficiency, waste minimisation; and results in wider community or flow-on benefits.
The EPA’s vision is a Tasmania that is clean, healthy and sustainable. Its purpose is to protect and enhance the quality of the Tasmanian environment in balance with economic and social values, and the needs of future generations.
Questions
Describe the initiative or project, particularly how it has resulted in improvements to environmental sustainability and explain how the results were measured.
Detail the social, economic and environmental benefits of the initiative or project both to your organisation, stakeholders directly involved and to the wider community.
Outline the project or initiative’s sustainability, including any innovative aspects such as changes to technology, process and training. Including any challenges, you faced and how they were overcome.
Describe the methods used to share information about this project or initiative within the business, your community sector, and other key stakeholders such as local communities. Include copies of press clippings, newsletters etc if available.
In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
- Describe the initiative or project, particularly any innovative aspects and how it has resulted in improvements to the environment
- Demonstrate the measurable improvement to relevant areas of environmental sustainability, resulting from the initiative or project
- Detail the social, economic and environmental benefits of the initiative/project both to the business and partners directly involved, and to the wider community
- Outline the initiative’s sustainability, including changes to technology, process, training and awareness
- Describe barriers and learnings from concept to implementation, and how these were/are being overcome
- Describe the methods used to share information about this project/initiative within the business, your industry sector, and other key stakeholders such as local communities
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made.This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
The Kieser Hobart Intergenerational Community Award celebrates the importance of sharing experience, wisdom and skills to close the gap between all generations. This Award is open to individuals 60 years and beyond, striving to build a stronger Tasmania through intergenerational knowledge sharing and collaboration. Story telling is an important part of everyone’s history, with many life lessons and skills that are not learnt, unless they are taught.
These community contributions (either paid or voluntary), are embedded in all our lives; at sporting clubs, schools, at work; across all facets of everyday life. Whether you are sharing your experiences, passing on your skills, assisting with sport and recreational activities or any community initiative that is connection people across generations, we want to share your story.
Questions
- Outline the nominee's program/service/work that is sharing knowledge between generations, including resources used, and how they involve the community.
- Describe why the nominee thinks it is important to share knowledge with other generations.
- How has this impacted the community and who/how many have benefited?
- Describe any barriers or difficulties that have been faced by the nominee and how they have been overcome?
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner
Customer service plays a pivotal role in the success of any business or organization. The Konica Minolta Australia Customer Service Award is a prestigious accolade that recognizes and celebrates exceptional customer service within organizations or by individuals. By sponsoring this award, Konica Minolta demonstrates its commitment to promoting and rewarding excellence in customer service. The award serves as a platform to acknowledge individuals, teams or organisations that consistently go above and beyond to provide exceptional experiences to customers. Through this award Konica Minolta aims to inspire a customer-centric culture and encourage organizations to prioritize outstanding service and customer satisfaction. The award highlights the importance of exceptional customer service and its impact on building strong relationships and driving success in all aspects of business.
Some points to consider when filling out this application:
--- How do you ensure a positive customer experience throughout the entire customer journey?
--- How do you proactively anticipate customer needs and exceed their expectations?
--- How do you handle difficult or dissatisfied customers, and what steps do you take to turn the situation around?
--- What strategies or initiatives have you implemented to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty?
Questions
- Please provide a brief background of the business/organisation and the nominee (a team or an individual)
- Can you please share a specific instance where you went above and beyond to provide exceptional service to a customer and also provide an example of how you successfully collaborated with others to deliver outstanding service?
- Training and development undertaken
- Outline how the nominee (a team or an individual) has made an impact on the business and wider community
- Testimonials that back up examples of customer service excellence will be viewed favorably
- In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made. This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
The MAIB Community Safety Award recognises individuals and groups who have, through their dedication and efforts, improved safety and/or reduced injury and harm in the community, whether that be on the roads (such as emergency services and first responders, road safety etc), to specific groups, specific areas or specific activities (for example workplace health and safety, community safety, etc).
There are many people in our community who take steps or act tirelessly to take care of others, improving environments, circumstances or activities to improve the safety and well-being of others and reduce the trauma and impact of injury and harm. Nominations can be made by, or for any person, organisation, business or group to recognise and appreciate genuine and significant efforts to improve safety and/or reduce the risk of injury and harm in the community.
It may be:
• a group dedicated to reducing road crashes, assisting in road crash rescue or injury management;
• someone who has identified a high risk environment and introduced supportive safety measures or actions to reduce injury and harm; or
• a community program designed to improve safety and reduce risk.
The award is recognition of efforts to look after each other in the community.
Open to individual and group nominees.
Questions
- Describe the individual nominee or community group and their safety activities or strategies
- Outline the effect on improving safety or reducing the risk of injury or harm
What has been the nominee’s impact on a region, town or community?
- Hours contributed, either voluntarily or paid
- List additional references here, feel free to provide testimonials (you can upload supporting documents, such as letters of support, in the ‘Attachments’ section)
In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and impacts made.
The MAIB Disability Achievement Award recognises people living with a disability who are actively influencing and contributing to the community.
This award recognises people involved in sport, art, business, study, community services and/or education.
The MAIB Disability Achievement Award recognises these motivated and inspirational role models and celebrates their contribution to the community.
Nominations can be made by any person, organisation, business or group to recognise individuals who are actively influencing and contributing to the community.
To be eligible for consideration, applicants should outline:
Questions
Describe the nominee’s community connection, involvement and contributions.
How has the nominee’s contributions influenced/impacted on the community?
Outline any barriers or difficulties that the nominee has faced and how they have been overcome. These may be physical, emotional, social, financial, or any other barriers.
List additional references here, feel free to provide testimonials (you can upload supporting documents, such as letters of support, in the ‘Attachments’ section)
In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and how these have made a positive impact
This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner.
Creating a liveable, vibrant, healthy community helps people live their best lives. The Health Revolution: Our pathway for living well in Tasmania 2026-2046 is the Government’s plan for keeping people healthy and well through preventive health.
The Health Revolution Health and Wellbeing Award celebrates community groups and organisations working to improve health and wellbeing. This award is for not-for-profit community groups or organisations (including local government and social enterprises).
Has your community group or organisation done something outstanding this year that improved the health and wellbeing of people in your community? For example:
· Supported people to connect with others to improve mental health and wellbeing.
· Helped more people to be smoke-free, eat well, be more active, and reduce harm from alcohol.
· Protected your community from the health impacts of climate change.
· Addressed barriers to health and wellbeing for specific community cohorts (health equity).
· Increased people's skills for managing their own health and wellbeing (health literacy).
Tell us about your not-for-profit community group or organisation.
Tell us about your program, project or service. What you did, who you reached, how many people, where and when, what resources did you use and how did you involve the community?
What were the health and wellbeing goals of your program, project or service?
What difference did your program, project or service make? How did you measure the changes and success of your program, project or service?
Describe any challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
In 25 words (2-3 sentences), please summarise your nomination; highlighting your achievements and the impacts made on community health and wellbeing. (This summary will be used for all media purposes and onstage presentations at the gala dinner).