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The 2024 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards once again had a competitive line up of New Zealand’s leading organisations and brands. The 6 th annual awards ceremony was held this evening in Auckland with Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Massey University taking home the Partners Life Supreme Award along with the Simpson Grierson Impact Award. Booking.com earned an impressive overall second
place and Les Mills International hot on their heels in 3 rd place for their second year.
The NZ Rainbow Excellence Awards now in their 6th year celebrate workplace leadership, innovation and best practice by organisations committed to rainbow Diversity & Inclusion and is now a premier Diversity &; Inclusion celebration each year. Martin King, Director of Pride Pledge and The Awards states, “Despite the economic climate, the awards received a record number of entries from wide ranging
industries and the gala dinner was a sell-out success yet again showing a deep and strengthening commitment for rainbow inclusion in Aotearoa.”
Massey’s Diversity & Inclusion Advisor Connor McLeod says “Witnessing hundreds of rainbow people come together, the design and delivery of services specific to us, and the impacts of the work of our students in their paid roles, has presented a radical shift to the way Massey is perceived amongst rainbow and takatāpui students and staff.”
The win by Massey University reflects their strategic approach to rainbow and takatāpui wellbeing as a multi-year process covering many facets of academic life including the launch of their own Rainbow Orientation in 2023. The Orientation offered a range of activities including lunches, karaoke nights, board and video game tournaments, arts and crafts, jewellery making, flag making, and even live piercing bringing more than 600 students together from three campuses.
Martin King says that all the finalists and winners are making a difference when it comes to Rainbow inclusion in our organisations and are committed to a better tomorrow for our rainbow communities. Large organisations such as Massey University and many other winners can truly make a difference outside the walls of their offices and into our communities for younger generations to come.
2024 Winners Announced See YourEX article Watch the highlights video 2024
The New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards celebrates workplace leadership, innovation, best practice and collaboration with organisations committed to rainbow diversity and inclusion. We are the only rainbow focussed awards programme of our kind in Aotearoa.
The 2023 awards were the final year of the collaboration between The Rainbow Tick, the organisation that developed and leads the Rainbow Tick Certification system and South Pacific Pride Ltd, the organisation behind Winter Pride (2018 to 2023) and the Pride Pledge.
See NZ Rainbow Excellence Awards 2023 photos See NZ Rainbow Excellence Awards 2023 VIDEO NZ Rainbow Excellence Awards 2023 Winners
Check out the highlights video of the 2022 Online awards below.
Watch the full 2022 Highlights
Watch the New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards 2021.
Congratulations to The 2021 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards category winners:
Check out the video of the 2021 Online awards below.
Watch the full 2021 livestream
Check out the video and photo highlights from the 2020 awards below.
Photos of 2020 highlights Video of 2020 Highlights
Catch a few of the highlights from the 2019 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards on the video link below.
View video of 2019 highlights
