Help to keep Whanganui beautiful

Whanganui District Council is entering the Keep New Zealand

Beautiful Awards again after winning New Zealand’s Most

Beautiful City and Best Street trophies in 2019.

The Council is entering under the Most Beautiful Large Town category this year and we’d like to hear about potential contributions from the community that could be included in the entry, specifically any community-initiated projects that enhance Whanganui’s environment in these areas:

• Litter prevention / waste minimisation – can include, for example, clean-ups, education and community engagement related to litter

• Community beautification projects – includes plantings and/or maintenance of landscape areas, community murals and heritage restoration

• Improve recycling projects – includes events, collections, education and community engagement related to recycling

• Sustainable tourism attractions – includes implementing ecological restoration or waste minimisation initiatives that cater to tourism.

If you know of an initiative that might be eligible for entry in the awards – it needs to have been started in the 12 months between August 2019 and 5 August 2020 – please email: awards@whanganui.govt.nz by midnight on Friday, 17 July 2020. For more information about the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards and the organisation’s activities and goals, visit: www.knzb.org.nz/beautiful-awards-2020