This award is designed to recognise the combined effort that is required to successfully plan, organise, and manage effective initiatives, programs, events and/or festivals which promote and enhance leisure time for a number of social, environmental and economic benefits to the community.

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Woodlands is WA family-owned and operated project-based company that specialises in solving problems for our customers all across our state. Woodlands supply only Western Australia and Australian Made Street & Park Furniture and associated customised infrastructure, along with specialised premium products sourced from sustainable manufacturers. In essence, we want our products and services to be in complete harmony with our care factor for your own project outcomes, no matter how large or small. For over 30 years Woodlands have been here to help solve your problems with quality-assured outcomes across the community.

The community facility award recognises facilities that demonstrate innovative features of design, development, and operation.

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This award acknowledges outstanding and innovative achievements in technology application and how that application has benefited the industry.

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Regional/Rural Australia includes all towns, small cities and areas that lie beyond the major capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart and Canberra), that make a significant contribution through community initiatives that contribute to the parks and leisure industry. These projects can be play spaces, events, tourism, trails, programs, repurposing of facilities and environmental initiatives.

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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 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. Developing and implementing a sustainable approach to economic, social, and environmental concerns should be integrated into all core activities in addition to complying with industry standards and best practices. Those responsible for subordinate strategies to an institution’s overarching strategic plan are not included in this category.

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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.

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 practices 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.

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This award seeks to recognise and celebrate outstanding contributions made by a student or emerging professional (under 30 years of age) in a course of study leading to a nationally recognised qualification in the sector throughout Australia or who has made a significant contribution to the parks and leisure industry.

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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.

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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.

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