A MESSAGE FROM THE LGPRO PRESIDENT

Elevating the sector by celebrating best practice is an LGPro priority. Through publications like the Awards for Excellence Yearbook, we actively promote the value and achievement of our sector both within our peer groups and to the outside world. Through this celebratory document, we also hope to offer up opportunities for our professionals to learn from each other.

These Awards for Excellence thus serve a dual function: they highlight our professionals’ dedication to the diverse communities they serve and provide our sector the collective opportunity to share and learn from the innovative ideas and the latest in best practice on show.

I thank all those involved in making these awards possible, including the team of volunteer judges who contributed their time and expertise to the selection process of these extensive awards. With such high-quality nominees each year, this is no easy feat. I further thank the council leaders who dedicated the staff time and allocated resources toward this important program through their team members who participated.

I congratulate every finalist, those highly commended, and the winners of this year’s awards on behalf of the LGPro Board. I further congratulate the diligent graduates of LGPro’s leadership programs this year who have proven their dedication to the development of their professionalism and our sector.

I invite you to join me in this celebration, but moreover I hope that you find golden opportunities to bring these ideas into your own organisations so that we might continue to move forward as a collective, learning from our peers and growing as a sector.

Liana Thompson President, LGPro Director City Life, Wyndham City Council