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Conditions of entry:    

1.  Any business, organisation or individual can be nominated (large or small, profit or not-for-profit) who meets the criteria.

2. Nominations for programmes, projects and campaigns will only be accepted in the Community Impact, Environmental Impact, Customer Service Impact and Innovation Impact categories.  

3.  A business or organisation can be nominated for a maximum of two categories but a separate nomination form for each category must submitted.  

4.  All business, organisation, individual, programme, project or campaign must be located within Manawatu District Council (MDC) boundary.

5. You can nominate yourself, someone can nominate you, or you can nominate another business, organisation or individual.  

 6. Entry in the Feilding & District Impact Awards is free.

 7. The Impact Player and Young Leaders award nominees must be employed by a local business or organisation located in MDC boundary. 

8.  All individuals nominated must be a resident in the Manawatu District Council boundary.

 9.  An individual must be nominated by someone, you can't nominate yourself in the Impact Player, Young Leaders and Hall of Fame categories.      

10.Nominations open from Monday 26^th May until midnight Sunday 15^th  June 2025 and must be made using the official Nomination Form. 

11.The Application Form must be completed by the nominated business, organisation or organisers of a programme, project or campaign from 16^th June until midnight 13^th July and must be made using the official online application form. 

 12.Unsuccessful and successful nominees may re-nominate in subsequent years.  

13.Successful ‘Hall of Fame’ winners can only win once.

14.The 2025 Judging Panel reserves the right to enter nominations in additional award categories or remove them from award categories as deemed appropriate.  Every effort will be made to inform nominees of this.

15.It is permissible to contact FDP for guidance and support during the compilation of a nomination or the application form. A panel of consultants are available to help.

16.Unless previously arranged, all nomination and application information and material submitted remain the property of FDP and will not be returned.

17.Nominees will be encouraged to make themselves available without cost for publicity purpose as required prior to, and after, the Awards Gala dinner.

18.Nominees understand that they may be contacted by the FDP or judges for further information and/or publicity purposes. 

19.The judge’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.

20.Businesses/organisations or individuals that work for Feilding & District Promotion (FDP) or are on the FDP board of executives cannot be nominated.   

21. The Awards naming Rights Sponsor cannot be nominated for any awards. Award/category sponsors cannot be nominated for the category/award they are sponsoring.