Mr Billy Graham, of Lower Hutt, MNZM for services to youth and the community
Billy Graham founded the Naenae Youth Charitable Trust in 2006, through which he opened the Naenae Boxing Academy to provide a positive outlet and strategies for at-risk and disadvantaged young men in the community. He has since established the Billy Graham Youth Foundation and several other Boxing Academies around the country, and has begun training young women, many from vulnerable backgrounds. Having been Patron of the New Zealand Police Recruit Wing 269 in 2011, Mr Graham has developed the relationship between his Boxing Academies and the New Zealand Police. The Billy Graham Youth Foundation was the second organisation in New Zealand to be awarded the White Ribbon Business Accreditation.