Hilary Price
Hilary Price, of Tauranga, received the Queen's Service Medal for services to the community. Ms Price is an advocate for the community's most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. She was instrumental in establishing Homes of Hope, a non-profit trust providing a consistent high standard of foster care for disadvantaged children or those unable to live with their own families and is currently its Chief Executive. Homes of Hope won the Tauranga community organisation award in 2008. She set up James House, a live-in home for 20 children under the guidance of live-in parents. Ms Price was involved in the establishment of a Christian pre-school in South Africa.