The Sir Peter
Blake Trust identifies and celebrates the next generation of
New Zealand leaders, adventurers and environmental stewards.
Sir Peter Blake was an inspiring and visionary kiwi leader. The
Trust keeps Sir Peter's leadership legacy alive by recognising and
celebrating leaders across all fields and pursuits through the Sir Peter Blake
Leadership Awards. These Blake Leaders, awarded at the
beginning of Leadership Week, join a growing group of individuals
who follow in the footsteps of Sir Peter and possess many
of the characteristics admired in him.
During Leadership Week, people of all
ages from businesses, schools and organisations around New Zealand,
take part in events which celebrate and develop leadership
capability and motivate future leaders. Leadership Week culminates
in Red
Socks Day, when New Zealanders are encouraged to
celebrate the memory of a great Kiwi leader by wearing a pair of
Sir Peter's lucky red socks.
A life spent on the world's oceans instilled in Sir Peter Blake
the certainty that action is needed to preserve and
protect this precious resource. Today, the Trust seeks to
carry on his work through the Care for Our Coast programme, which
involves thousands of school children developing awareness and
cleaning up the marine environment. The annual Sir Peter Blake
Youth EnviroLeaders' Forum empowers 50 young kiwis with
knowledge and confidence to take action on topical environmental
issues. Every year the Trust sends one young kiwi ambassador to Antarctica, a place Sir
Peter found awe-inspiring, and in 2012 30 young New Zealanders
journeyed to the Kermadec Islands as members of the
inaugural Young Blake
Expedition.
2013 Programme Overview
News & Events
What Others Have Done
2013 Leadership Awards