Parks and Leisure Australia NSW/ACT Announces 2025 Annual Region Awards of Excellence Gala Dinner
Parks and Leisure Australia NSW/ACT is excited to announce that their prestigious Annual Region Awards of Excellence Dinner will take place on Thursday, 12 June 2025, at the stunning Doltone House Hyde Park, Sydney.
The Awards of Excellence Dinner is the highlight of the regional calendar, celebrating outstanding achievements and innovation across parks, leisure, and recreation sectors. This elegant evening brings together industry professionals, local councils, and community leaders to honor excellence and inspire future advancements in the field.
Tickets for this highly anticipated event are now available. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of a night that showcases the best in our industry while enjoying the sophistication of one of Sydney’s premier venues.
🎟️ Interested in booking a full table (10 seats) at a discounted rate? Contact us to arrange.
🌟 Sponsorship Opportunities are still available! Get in quick to sponsor the category of your choice, or become an event sponsor.
ABOUT THE AWARDS
Each year, PLA acknowledges excellence in our industry through its prestigious Awards of Excellence. These annual awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding initiatives and innovative efforts of ‘The People Behind the Places,’ which promote the wise use of leisure time for a multitude of social, environmental, and economic benefits to the community. It’s a celebration of those who contribute to creating vibrant, healthy, and inclusive spaces for all.
These prestigious awards honour remarkable projects and initiatives that have contributed significantly to the advancement of our industry. Starting within our regions, PLA recognises outstanding achievements across a diverse spectrum of fields, from park development to community engagement programs. The winners of these Regional awards represent what we recognise as excellence, showcasing projects and initiatives that not only deliver outstanding value but also enrich the lives of our communities. As a regional award winner, you become a National finalist and are invited to attend the National Awards of Excellence gala
Please visit the dedicated Awards of Excellence webpage for further details and information on how to apply.
Thank you to our event and award category sponsors for their support
Regional/Rural Australia includes all of the towns, small cities and areas that lie beyond the major capital cities, who make a significant contribution through community initiatives which contribute to the parks and leisure industry. These projects can be playspaces, events, tourism, trails, programs, repurposing of facilities and environmental initiatives.
Sponsored by
This award acknowledges outstanding and innovative achievement in the area of technology application and how that application has benefited the industry.
This award is designed to recognise the combined effort that is required to successfully plan, organise and manage effective initiatives, projects, programs, events and/or festivals which promote and enhance leisure time for a number of social, environmental and economic benefits to the community. Evidence of success should form a component of the submission.
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Christie Barbecues is an Australian family-owned public barbecue manufacturer. We have focused exclusively on providing the safest, most reliable and sustainable products for over fifty years.
This community facility award recognises facilities that demonstrate innovative features of design, development and operation.
This award celebrates and acknowledges those who protect nature and parks, improve climate resilience, ensure sustainability, and care for our land, as well as champions in all of these areas as part of this award. Awarded to an individual, a team, or an organisation for the development of innovative processes, practices, or technologies that contribute to the development of a sustainable future.
Sponsored by
GreenLife Group is a national leader in property services and open space management. GLG delivers a wide range of integrated commercial landscape, horticultural and environmental services that include property and ground maintenance, sports turf, arboriculture, and development of sustainable solutions. www.glgcorp.com
This award celebrates and promotes vibrant, successful well designed and managed new or significantly revitalised parks/ open spaces by recognising and rewarding exceptional examples of best practice in terms of design and management. This includes parks and open spaces that are large, small, linear, along transport corridors, road closures, foreshore and reclaimed urban spaces.
This award is given to a playspace over the value of $500,000 that involves a range of stakeholders, contributes to the creation of a sense of ‘place’ for its local community and exhibits landscape and/or structural design innovation that delights and aids childhood development.
This award is given to a playspace under the value of $500,000 that involves a range of stakeholders, contributes to the creation of a sense of ‘place’ for its local community and exhibits landscape and/or structural design innovation that delights and aids childhood development.
Sponsored by
ETP Turf is a leading sports field design and turf agronomy consultancy, with over 19 years of experience delivering expert solutions. Our dedicated team of designers, consultants, and agronomists collaborates with Local Government Authorities and the professional turf industry to enhance natural turf surfaces and ensure high-performance outcomes for every project.
This award acknowledges outstanding research achievement by a group or individual, professionals, student or academics who have made a significant contribution to the parks and leisure industry through expanded knowledge enhancement promoting the benefits or importance of the parks and leisure sector in Australian society.
This award recognises the development of strategies for parks, open space, sport, recreation and leisure opportunities by rewarding outstanding examples of strategic planning that have enriched and revitalised a community.
