The winners of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW (KAB NSW) 2024 Tidy Towns Awards were announced on 2 November 2024, at a ceremony hosted by 2023 winner Bathurst. The prestigious KAB NSW 2024 Overall Tidy Towns Award was presented to Parkes, earning the town the opportunity to represent NSW at the Australian Tidy Towns Awards in Beechworth, Victoria in May 2025.
KAB NSW has been running the Tidy Towns program since 1981 which celebrates, recognises and rewards projects that reduce litter, minimise waste, encourage recycling, promote heritage and culture, biodiversity, and waterways protection, celebrate community spirit and many other environmental areas.
Overall winner, Parkes, also won in the Biodiversity Conservation, Liveable Towns, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation and Community Spirit and Inclusion categories.
KAB NSW Tidy Towns Assessor, Doug MacDonald commented that “Parkes has demonstrated that it has taken sustainability seriously for many years, exemplified by their successful implementation of resilience projects and their recent focus on ecotourism, planned growth, and economic development. Council’s sincere sustainability culture among staff reaffirms their dedication to creating a thriving, environmentally conscious community for current and future generations.”
Val Southam, CEO of KAB NSW, said that “the Tidy Towns Awards inspire communities and councils across NSW to make a genuine and lasting contribution to their area through partnerships between local authorities, businesses, community groups, schools, and individuals. The commitment of the councils, organisations and individuals who entered is evident in the calibre of the entries received this year and I would like to congratulate this year’s winners and finalists and everyone that entered.” said Ms Southam.
The awards are hosted by Keep Australia Beautiful NSW with support from the NSW Environment Protection Authority, Bathurst Regional Council, JR Richards and Snowy Hydro.
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Photos from the event are available at: https://clients.ilovewednesdays.com/f443005295. Please credit I Love Wednesdays.
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Contact Details
Val Southam, Chief Executive Officer KABNSW at ceo@kabnsw.org.au, t: 0419016401
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About the KABNSW Tidy Towns Awards
ABOUT THE TIDY TOWNS AWARDS
Since 1981, the Tidy Towns Program has been rewarding and recognising projects around litter, waste management, recycling, heritage, community spirit and other environmental areas in towns both large and small across the breadth of NSW.
We endeavour to deliver an inclusive and positive platform that encourages shared learnings and inspires environmental action at the local level. The program recognises and celebrates those rural and regional communities who are pioneering the path towards a more sustainable future.
About KAB NSW
Keep Australia Beautiful NSW (KABNSW) is the state’s premier organisation for litter reduction and environmental sustainability. Independent and not-for-profit, our focus is to engage communities and collaborate with industry, businesses, state and local government to promote sustainable behaviour changes for the future prosperity of our State.
Keeping Australia beautiful is about more than keeping litter out of our environment and over a 40-year history our programs have adapted to incorporate all aspects of sustainability. We have built a state-wide network of dedicated individuals, businesses, schools, community groups and government bodies striving to deliver a cleaner and more sustainable environment.
Through five core programs we work with communities across regional, metropolitan, and coastal NSW to educate and motivate environmental initiatives.