Tweed Sustainability Awards

• Trophy winner
  All Natural Meat Co - Judges praised the nominees for incorporating native biodiversity, using chemical-free soil, pasture and animal health techniques and for sharing their progressive farming practices with both locals and people abroad.
• Special Recognition Certificate
  Rob and Sue Harnett, Tweed Valley Whey Farmhouse Cheeses 
• Special Recognition Certificate
  Robert Quirk 

• Trophy winner
  Green Heroes - for their innovative partnerships and environmental education programs for young people, parents and educators to encourage environmental stewardship and wildlife protection. 
• Special Recognition Certificate
  Team Koala 
• Special Recognition Certificate
  Bilambil Landcare 

• Youth Trophy winner
  Josh Carpenter, Tackle Bin Project - for his initiative to trial bait bins at three locations, for gaining funding to install bins at 10 other locations, for partnering with Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers to empty the bins, record data about fishing debris collected and track the number of reduced marine wildlife entanglements.
• School Trophy winner
  St Ambrose Student Green Team, for exemplifying student environmental leadership through presentations to assemblies, feature articles in school newsletters and students environmental initiatives throughout the school calendar year and across the campus, gardens and canteen.
• Community Group Trophy winner
  Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre - the judges were impressed with the extent that sustainability is embedded into all facets of PBNC’s operations from the induction of volunteers and workers the detailed sustainable design considerations in the development of their new facility, through to their waste reduction and resource recovery programs, renewable energy investments and grounds management to support and enhance local biodiversity and be water efficient.
• Business Trophy winner
  Summerland Credit Union: excelled due to the programs in place to reduce environmental impacts across Summerland’s day to day operations, how it builds sustainability into policy positions for its investments, featuring its sustainability commitments in new staff recruitment, eco loans for its customers and grants for the community.
• Adult Trophy winner
  Claire Masters - Claire was acknowledged for her immense contribution to her own and her community’s environmental outcomes, her capacity to influence and inspire others, bringing passion and feeling to what she did, building on her own lived experience of strengthening the human connection with nature and supporting others and organisations to do the same.

Over 1800 votes were received from the community in support of their favourite nominations.

• Regenerative Agriculture
  Matthew and Henry Prichard, Cudgen Road Farms Pty Ltd 
• Wildlife & Habitat Conservation
  Team Koala 
• Sustainability – Youth
  Alyce Togo 
• Sustainability – Schools
  Sathya Sai College 
• Sustainability – Community Groups
  Nature Explorers 
• Sustainability – Adult
  Claire Masters 
• Sustainability – Business
  Gary Bagnall, New Leaf Café 

Posthumous certificates were presented to the family of Claire Masters in appreciation for Claire’s contribution to the Tweed environment and community.

Lee Smith received a certificate from the Mayor of Tweed in recognition of the late Peter Smith’s commitment to best-practice farming in the Tweed.