Ms Gillian Bibby is a past-president of the New Zealand Composers' Association and one of the country's leading piano teachers. In she was instrumental in forming the Sunrise Music Trust to commission, edit and publish New Zealand music for younger students.
Her area of research includes particularly the works for solo piano by Paul Schramm. Her compositions include a considerable series of works involving New Zealand birdsong. Miss Lauren Boyle has been one of New Zealand's top performing swimmers, achieving 14 medals at major international meets during her career.
At 18 she won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in the 4xm Freestyle Relay, winning silver in the same event four years later at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she won a gold medal in the metre Freestyle, after she achieved a Commonwealth Games record in the final.
At the Wellington Short Course Championships in , she broke the World Short Course record in the 1,metre Freestyle, becoming one of only three New Zealand swimmers to hold a world record. Since retiring, Miss Boyle has been involved as an ambassador for Water Safety New Zealand since and has toured the country helping young swimmers by sharing her knowledge and experience.
Mrs Suleti Fieme'a Burrows is a traditional Tongan artist known for her tapa work and has helped to revitalise the art of tapa making in New Zealand and Tonga. Mrs Burrows has created ngatu tapa paintings , kahoa heilala neck adornments and other forms of Tongan art in New Zealand since the late s. She and her daughter worked on a project to revitalise tapa making in her home village of Falevai and she has since travelled the world delivering workshops and speaking at conferences. She has presented exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria and Australia and her work has been acquired by Auckland and Otago museums.
She volunteered for Hospital Hector Trust Group from to , selling her craft at hospitals around Auckland and donating the profits toward funding medical equipment. Under her guidance the last four exhibitions have coincided with Tongan Language Week. Mrs Burrows has been an active member of the Manurewa Methodist Church for more than 30 years. After a long period of service in radio broadcast, Mr Burt helped the lwi of Tauranga Moana to establish their own lwi station in He has continued to train lwi broadcasters, particularly emerging leaders, to become effective and independent managers of their broadcast resources.
Ms Susan Boland co-founded Operatunity Ltd in , an organisation dedicated to delivering professional daytime concerts for seniors, while providing performance opportunities and employment to New Zealand artists. Ms Boland has contributed to the organisation as Managing Director and Artistic Director, since its inception, and Operatunity now performs to more than 65, seniors annually throughout New Zealand. In Operatunity expanded to include travel, based around music, helping seniors to experience more of the world. She has been responsible for numerous charitable initiatives and fundraising events including for The Hearing House, Alzheimers New Zealand, Kaikoura and Christchurch earthquake recoveries, and a project which resulted in a sustainable water supply for Yasawa High School, Fiji.
Since , Operatunity has partnered with Sistema Aotearoa, a South Auckland educational institution, resulting in both monetary donations and more than 50 instruments, helping more children gain access to music tuition. As a professional singer she has performed as a soloist with major music organisations in New Zealand.
Ms Boland founded Class Act Opera in the early s, a group which toured nationally for 18 years, introducing opera to more than , school students. She has performed in productions for 72 years and was invited at age 16 to dance with the Royal Ballet Company in London in the s. She is actively involved in all aspects of the performing arts, including choreography, writing, music, scenery and costume design.
She has written, directed and produced many two act full length ballets, including one for Dance Southland.
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She has offered dance to a wider group of children with her Dance for Fun classes. She has spent countless hours, often on an unpaid basis, helping students and groups prepare for competitions and performances, including conducting and choreographing the Clyde School choir for many years. She has been adjudicator at several Dance competitions. He was School Director of South Seas until retiring in He was Executive Producer of the award-winning children's science series 'Suzy's World' from to Mr Cath has designed industry training courses for international clients including the Korean Film Commission and Singapore Ministry of Education.
Mr George Chan has donated to a range of charitable causes across New Zealand and has been a leader within the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, a charitable organisation that provides material and spiritual relief to those in need, since Tzu Chi provides free health check-ups, blood donation, education programmes, financial assistance scholarships, environmental conservation, disaster relief and other services to the community. Mr Chan has held a variety of voluntary leadership positions within the organisation, including secretary and CEO.
Tzu Chi distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cash cards to low-income families after the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes, and Edgecumbe floods. He has been an active supporter of St John and has promoted the importance of their ambulance service to the Chinese and East Asian community. He has personally donated three ambulance vehicles to St John in recent years.
He collaborated with the Ministry of Social Development, the Whakatane District Council and local iwi to initiate a driver licence programme for youth in the region. In the hub's service model was reviewed to become a Whanau Tautoko Centre, enabling Eastbay REAP to respond to at-risk families with young children. Following the Edgecumbe floods, he directed his staff to provide support alongside other agencies, which included non-judgemental literacy and numeracy support for completing insurance forms and a holiday programme to engage children. Mr Chopping has been a member of the New Zealand and Australia Electrical Standards committees since and was involved in introducing a number of safety procedures for electrical installations inspection and testing procedures.
He established Chopping Electrical Training Company in to provide practical annual courses for registered electricians, technicians and service personnel. He produced a technical paper in on 'Review of fluorescent light fittings in New Zealand during the last 40 years', finding that older fluorescent light fittings now posed a serious fire risk if they had not been maintained.
He was subsequently asked to investigate past electrical fires by insurance and electrical consulting companies. He was a member of the Auckland Outboard Boating Club for 35 years, serving on the Executive from to and as Commodore from to Mr Chopping is currently the Chairman of the Marina Management committee and made particular contributions to electrical safety on marine vessels.
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Dr David Codyre is a community psychiatrist and longstanding advocate for improvement in mental health services, and for increased access to peer support services. From to he established and led New Zealand's first primary mental healthcare programme at ProCare Health in Auckland. Since he has led the mental health team at New Zealand's largest independent primary healthcare group Tamaki Health.
He has served on mental health expert advisory boards both regionally and to the Ministry of Health and Government. He has served on a number of mental health related trust boards, including the Key to Life Charitable Trust from to , the organization supporting Mike King's mental health promotion and suicide prevention work. He has worked with Government agencies to introduce a youth peer led support programme, Tu Kotahi, in four pilot schools. Dr Codyre co-hosted the radio and television show 'The Nutters Club' with Mike King from to , and has won a number of awards in recognition of his initiatives.
Mrs Cowan is the Chairperson of Platform Trust, a national umbrella group that empowers community organisations in the mental health and addiction sector in New Zealand. As Chairperson, she successfully led pay equity negotiations for mental health and addiction support workers.
She has been the Chairperson of Navigate, a representative group of more than 50 non-governmental organisations delivering mental health and addiction services to the District Health Boards in the Northern region. Mrs Cowan has had a long-term involvement with youth work and parenting support through a number of community organisations. Mr Roy Cowley has volunteered in governance roles for charity and the arts community for more than 30 years. Mr Cowley has contributed thousands of hours to advising the Cancer Society of New Zealand at a governance level for more than 20 years.
He was elected Chairperson of the Wellington Division from to and represented the Division on the Society's national board from until He guided the organisation during the expansion of its Supportive Care and Health Promotion Services and overall growth. He was granted Life Membership in and awarded the Meritorious Service Award in , the Cancer Society's highest award for volunteer service.
He oversaw the evolution of the New Zealand International Festival into a permanent institution and assisted with transforming the Festival into a major contributor to the arts in New Zealand. Mr Cowley was also an independent advisor for more than 25 years to the Little Company of Mary in New Zealand, overseeing the financial management of the organisation's healthcare facilities including the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington.
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She has won multiple aria competitions and has sung as soloist with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and other regional orchestras. She has been lead soprano alongside Dame Malvina Major and has starred in many operas and musical theatre productions. In Palmerston North she runs a programme called Start Singing, which provides vocal coaching to people who don't believe they can sing, for a variety of emotional, social and physical reasons.
Mr Paul Crowther is a self-taught electronics engineer, drummer, sound technician, and hands-on figure in the New Zealand music industry.
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Mr Crowther invented a guitar pedal called the 'Hot Cake' when he was performing as the drummer in the New Zealand band 'Split Enz' on their first two albums in the s. The distortion pedal, which is hand-made by Mr Crowther and his wife Jo, is well-known in the music industry and is used by guitarists in New Zealand and internationally. He is described as a mainstay of the live New Zealand music scene for more than 40 years.
He has mostly worked in the industry behind the scenes to support other musicians. He has designed, installed and maintained sound equipment for many individuals and music venues. Mr Crowther also repairs electronic musical instruments and offers technical advice and assistance, often without recompense.
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Ms Julia Durkin is the founder and director of the annual Auckland Festival of Photography established in and also founded Auckland Photo Day in The Auckland Festival of Photography is the longest running photography festival in Australasia. It is a free event providing a range of opportunities to celebrate the art of photography.
The Festival saw exhibitions, events and talks reach an audience of around 93, across the Auckland region. The Festival now has an online archive of 10, images of such events as the Diwali Festival, the Lantern Festival, and significant public photography projects for the Pacific community. Ms Durkin initiated the Auckland Photo Blog in In she initiated Manukau Light Night, an exhibition of photographic works projected onto buildings. She created the first evening gallery circuit for the Auckland region, the Festival Tuesday Circuit, in She initiated New Zealand's first photography symposium on climate change at the Aotea Centre in She played a key role in Auckland becoming a founding member of the Asia Pacific Photoforum in , a regional grouping of international photography festivals across New Zealand, Australia and Asia.
Mrs Carrol Elliot has worked in the nursing profession for more than 50 years as a registered nurse and midwife. She was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Nurses Union in the s. She helped organise the first conference for the professional development of gerontology nurses in New Zealand, including international speakers. She wrote a course that was accepted by Auckland University of Technology for registered nurses working in private hospitals.
Mrs Elliott has been a member of the New Zealand Justices of the Peace Association since and attends call outs as a trusted referee when mental health professionals initiate Mental Health Act proceedings for a patients' admission to hospital.
Ms Ewan has grown Dove Hospice from caring for 14 patients and families per year to more than The service has a leading edge 'new age' out-patient facility with a focus on holistic wellness, as well as an in-patient service for respite and end-of-life care. She initiated a counselling service that has grown to be one of the largest in a hospice service setting within New Zealand. Dove Hospice is solely reliant on its retail activity initiated under her leadership and various donations from the community. She was appointed as a Trustee to the foundation board of Race4Life, a national charitable trust that provides wishes for terminally ill adults.