Vivien Cooper. Photo / File
A Rotorua woman with a passion for helping people has been nominated in the Community Spirit category of the Pride of New Zealand Awards.
Vivien Cooper has had a "seemingly endless" list of volunteer roles in the community, according to her nominator.
Mrs Cooper was the local 2014 Weet-Bix Tryathlon
co-ordinator, has been the John Paul College PTA treasurer for seven years, a Swim Rotorua committee member and a member of Culture Club, an advocacy group for community welfare.
She was also one of the organisers of this year's GlobalFest, is a Neighbourhood Support co-ordinator and in the past has been involved with Plunket, the Rotorua toy library, music school and for seven years ran the Tour de Lakefront cycle event.
"For me it's really about helping people, sometimes we forget that the community can't function without volunteers," she said.
