The New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards

Conditions of Entry

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Applicants for The New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards (“the Award”) must comply with the following conditions of entry:

Organisations may only submit one entry per category.
Please ensure responses (excluding “Supporting Imagery”), do not exceed the specified word limits.
If you submit “Supporting Imagery” with your entry (photography, logos, video), please provide this in the required formats.
a. If selected as a finalist your Supporting Imagery will be used at the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards Dinner and may be used by the Organiser at its discretion, for media stories, case studies and/or promotion of the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards.
b. If you do not submit Supporting Imagery, and your organisation’s entry is subsequently chosen as a finalist, your organisation must then provide relevant Supporting Imagery.
All entries should be submitted online no later than 5:00pm on Wednesday 7 March (“Closing Date”).
Entries will not be accepted if an application has not reached the Organiser by the Closing Date.
The Judges shall be entitled to follow-up and authenticate any information, or material provided in this entry and/or in support of this entry. An entry may be deemed ineligible for consideration if the information or material provided cannot be verified to the Judges satisfaction.
An entry will only be chosen as a finalist for the Award if the Judges’ consider that the calibre of the entry has met the entry criteria and is of an appropriate standard of quality (to be determined at the Judges’ sole discretion). The Judges will determine whether there are any, and if so, the number of finalists. The Judges shall also be entitled to deny entry to any applicant, or terminate any entry, if in their opinion any applicant or entry could bring the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards into disrepute.
The Judges’ decisions shall at all times be final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding their decisions.
The applicant grants the Organiser a royalty-free, sub licensable and transferable right to reproduce, publish and/or broadcast either in full or in part any portion of the applicant’s entry or Supporting Imagery (as set out in condition 2 and 4 above) to the Award for the purposes of case study, media stories and/or promotion of the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards.
If any information or material provided by an applicant is of a commercially sensitive nature that may be detrimental to the applicant or a third party if published or broadcast, the applicant must clearly mark that information or material “CONFIDENTIAL” and the Organiser agrees not to publish or broadcast that particular information or material except to the extent permitted in writing by the applicant.
The Organiser owns all rights (including intellectual property rights) to the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards.
The Organiser owns all promotion and publicity rights to the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards.
The Organiser shall have no liability resulting from the use of, or reliance on, any information provided to the Organiser by the applicant in respect of the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards and the applicant agrees to indemnify the Organiser, against all claims, demands, costs (including legal costs on a solicitor and own client basis), losses, expenses and damages arising out of the Organiser’s permitted use of such information, including the applicant’s entry.
Entries will be judged on achievements, performance or results during the 2017 calendar year. Supporting information dating from outside this period may be provided, if clearly identified as such.

Award specific conditions of entry

Commercial Partnership Award: One applicant for this award to be a non-commercial organisation involved in the sport and recreation sector and the second applicant must be a commercial organisation.
Event Excellence Award: Organisers of not-for-profit or commercial sport and recreation events may apply.
Community Impact Award: Applications for this award are open to any organisation with involvement in the sport and recreation sector.
High Performance Campaign Award: Only specific sporting campaigns, (from individual athletes or teams) will be considered - this does not include whole programmes with athletes competing in a range of disciplines or multiple teams.
Innovation Excellence Award: Applications for this award are open to any organisation with involvement in the sport and recreation sector.
Future Leaders Scholarship:
1. Nominations for this award are open to any individual aged 40 or under at the time of entry, who is currently employed in the sport and recreation sector.
2. Individuals must be nominated by their Chief Executive or Line Manager (in this case endorsed by their Chief Executive).
3. Nominations must include:
•     The nominee’s current CV.
•     Completed application form.
•     A photo of the nominee in a high-resolution format suitable for video.