Beautiful Awards 2021 winners

Our Beautiful Awards are New Zealand’s longest-running sustainability awards and provide a benchmark for environmental excellence. Run annually since 1972, the Awards inspire, recognise and acknowledge those individuals, schools, community groups, towns and cities working passionately to Keep New Zealand Beautiful.

Congratulations to the winners and recipients of the Beautiful Awards 2021

Towns & Cities

Most Beautiful Towns & Cities Supreme Award winner

Whakatane

Most Beautiful Large City
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Wellington

Most Beautiful Small City

Hastings

Most Beautiful Large Town

Taupō 

Most Beautiful Small Town

Kaitāia

Places

Best Loo

Leith Place Toilet – Tokoroa

Best Street
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Mary Street – Thames

Kiwis’ Choice
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Queens Park – Invercargill

Community

Community Group Award

Rotary Cambridge

Sustainable Schools
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Solway College – Masterton

Individual recipients

Tidy Kiwi
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David Williams – Otorohanga
Kumar Kumareswaran – Lower Hutt
Michelle Stronach-Marsh – Petone

Young Legend

Jemima Christie – Havelock North
Nora Quigley – Methven
Sophie Weenink – Nelson

Local Hero

Anna Petchell – Hamilton
Gary Mitchell – Wellington
Marshal Walia – Auckland