{"id":622602,"date":"2026-10-06T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622602\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:32:11","slug":"coastguard-volunteers-search-and-rescue-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622602\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastguard volunteer\u2019s search and rescue award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carolyn Tapley, a volunteer with Coastguard Canterbury and board member of Coastguard New Zealand, has received a 2026 New Zealand Search and Rescue (NZSAR) Gold Award for Support Activity. The award recognises her leadership, fundraising, governance, community partnerships, and commitment to water safety.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of her contribution was helping secure $2.5 million to replace the earthquake-damaged Coastguard Canterbury base in Lyttelton. She has also strengthened partnerships with iwi, local government, the Royal New Zealand Navy, funders, and the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>A Coastguard Canterbury volunteer since 2013 and Coastguard New Zealand board member since 2022, Tapley has also supported volunteer welfare, health and safety, mentoring, and water safety education.<\/p>\n<p>Coastguard New Zealand CEO Carl McOnie said the award reflects Tapley\u2019s outstanding contribution to Coastguard and the wider search and rescue sector. The awards were presented at Parliament in Wellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolyn Tapley, a volunteer with Coastguard Canterbury and board member of Coastguard New Zealand, has received a 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-622602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}