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These Awards were created to recognise the efforts of authorised Beautiful Cities and Towns' programmes and are awarded annually to the entrants who are best achievers in their category.

To ensure equality of opportunity programmes are grouped, for the purposes of the awards, into categories based on population size.

Category A	Population	0 - 8,000
Category B	Population	8,001 - 20,000
Category C	Population	Greater than 20,000

The award in each category is in the form of a certificate and a cheque. These are sponsored by Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) Ltd.

Awards are judges by a appointed panel selected by the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Board

What do the judges look for?

In determining the category winners of Beautiful Cities and Towns Awards, the judges have a points system which uses the ffollowingcriteria:

Presentation:   The way the annual report is packaged. Is it easy and interesting to read? Are there illustrations and press cuttings?

Range of Activities   Did the activities cover a good range of both litter education and beautification projects?

Involving the Public:   Were activities planned to involve the public? Was there good public participation in the projects carried out? Is the committee being supported by the public?

Objectives:  Were the objectives set for last year achieved? Have objective been set for the coming year?

Presentation to Community Groups:  Were a reasonable number of "Programme Presentations" made to community groups? (Based on size of population). Did these result in aadditionalsupport for the programme?

Cost-Benefit Studies:  Are cost-benefit studies, both for individual projects and for the year as a whole, included in the report? Do these show a reasonable result?

Litter Reduction Through Projects:  What effect did these projects have on litter reduction?