61st ISPS Handa Halberg Awards

The Halberg Awards are New Zealand’s pre-eminent event to honour and celebrate sporting excellence and raise funds for Sir Murray Halberg’s charity the Halberg Foundation, which aims to enhance the lives of physically disabled young New Zealanders by enabling them to participate in sport and recreation.

Held at Auckland's Spark Arena in 2024, the event will include a red carpet function, three course dinner, raffle, auction with the awards ceremony broadcast live thanks to our partner Sky Sport.

About us

Our vision: An inclusive New Zealand

Our purpose: Bringing about moments of Joy

“He waka eke noa, mō Aotearoa whānui” We are all in this waka together, for all the people of New Zealand.

The Halberg Foundation is a charitable organisation founded in 1963 by Olympic legend, Sir Murray Halberg (ONZ) on the belief that all people, regardless of their ability, should have equal opportunity to enhance their lives through sport and recreation.

The core work of Halberg includes a team of regional Halberg Advisers around the country who connect physically disabled young people to sport and recreation opportunities, they also deliver an inclusion training course on adapting physical activity and assist clubs, schools and organisations to provide inclusive events and programmes. The Halberg Games is a three-day national sports festival for physically disabled and vision impaired young people.