Deadline: 26 July 2024
Entries are now open for the NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards to celebrate the creativity and innovation of our rural women entrepreneurs.
Award Categories
- Emerging business: Awarded to a business or enterprise starting out in its journey and achieving exceptional results. Open to businesses/enterprises that have been running from 2 – 5 years.
- Love of the Land: Harnessing the potential of New Zealand’s land, environment or products of the land, to create a successful enterprise.
- Creative at Heart: Businesses that create and showcase original art, products or goods made using rural materials creative or in rural environments.
- Innovation: An enterprise that challenges the status quo to bring something new and innovative to the market or utilising rural resources in an innovative way.
- Rural Champion: A person, business or rural enterprise that champions the rural sector or provides a service to a rural community; an outstanding contributor who consistently goes above and beyond the norm in their support for the rural sector.
- Rural Health and Wellness Excellence: Recognising an enterprise that makes an outstanding contribution to supporting the health and wellness of the rural communities in New Zealand.
- Experience Rural: Enterprises inspired by Aotearoa’s diverse, natural resources to deliver unique experiences and showcase rural hospitality.
- A Supreme Award winner who demonstrates excellence and outstanding achievement across all judging criteria will be chosen from the Category Finalists.
Benefits
- All winners in the NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards receive free membership to Rural Women New Zealand / Ngā Wāhine Taiwhenua o Aotearoa for one year and join an organisation committed to supporting women and their rural communities.
- Category winners receive $1,000 prize money and a trophy which are presented at the NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards Ceremony.
- The NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards Supreme Winner will receive a further $1,000 prize money.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to enter the NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards 2024, you must:
- Be the owner/s and operator/s of a business or enterprise based in rural New Zealand employing less than 30 full-time equivalent staff.
- Take an active role in the day-to-day operation and management of your enterprise.
- Your business or enterprise must have at least 50% ownership by women.
- Previous winners of the Supreme Award at the Enterprising Rural Women Awards or the NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards may not enter again.
- Have owned and/or operated the enterprise for at least two years as at the date of entry.
For more information, visit Rural Women New Zealand.
