Awards won by Council

2025 LG NSW Excellence Awards

• Highly commended – Innovation in Special Events – Live Music Activations program, Inner West Council

2024 ARI Awards of Excellence

• Winner – Duty Manager of the Year Award, Garry Sole, Leichhardt Aquatic Centre – Inner West Council
• Winner – Child Safeguarding Award, Inner West Aquatics and Recreation – Inner West Council
• Winner – Social Impact Award, Inner West Aquatics Facilities – Inner West Council

2024 Financial Review Sustainability Leaders

• Winner - Property and Construction - Inner West Council

2024 National Awards for Local Government

• Winner - Waste Management, CRC Rap Video Project - Inner West Council

2025 1300apprentice Awards

• Winner – Trainee of the Year – Imogen MacBeath, Inner West Council

2025 Royal Life Saving Awards – ‘The Aquas’

• Winner – Leader of the Year – Simon Duck, Inner West Council

2024-25 A-League Women PFA Stadiums of the Season

• Winner – Stadium of the Season (Best Match-Day Atmosphere) – Leichhardt Oval

2025 LG Professionals NSW

• Winner – Australasian Management Challenge – Inner West Council
• Winner – Organisational Diversity and Inclusion – Disability Traineeship and EmbraceAbility mentoring program, Inner West Council
• Highly commended – Community Partnerships – Inner West Aquatics

2025 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA)

• Winner, Gold, Public Administration – Inner West Council 2023-24 Annual Report

2024 LG NSW Excellence Awards 

• Winner - Innovative Leadership (population over 150,000) Award for Lewis Herman Reserve – Creation of NSW’s First Dementia-Friendly Park
• Highly commended – Community partnerships (population over 150,000) category for Pride Inner West in February/March 2023

2024 Australasian Reporting Awards 

• Winner - Gold, Annual Report 2022/23 Annual Report - Inner West Council 

2023 AR Bluett Memorial Award

• Winner - 2023 AR Bluett Award Metro/Major Regional Award - Inner West Council

2023 NSW Youth Work Awards

• Winner – Outstanding Partnership – Inner West Council's Youth Week Working Group and local youth agencies

2023 ARI Awards of Excellence

• Winner – Accessibility Award, Ashfield Aquatic Centre – Inner West Council
• Winner – Award of Excellence, Simon Duck – Inner West Council

2023 Ministers’ Awards for Women in Local Government

• Winner – Alternative Pathways Award (Metro) – Mary Boustani, ICT Systems Engineer, Inner West Council
• Winner – Employment Diversity Award (Metro) – Inner West Council

2023 Australian Business Awards

• Winner – The Australian Business Award for Employer of Choice (EOC) - Inner West Council

2023 Local Government Week Awards

• Winner, Most Inclusive Youth Week Program – Youth Week, Inner West Council
• Highly commended, RH Dougherty Events and Communications Awards (Division C, population >70,000) – Uluru Training, Inner West Council

2023 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA)

• Winner, Bronze, Excellence in Reporting – Inner West Council 2021-22 Annual Report

2023 NSW Local Government Excellence Awards

• Winner, Community Partnerships (Population Over 150,000) – Love Your Home Ground (litter prevention project)

2023 National Trust Heritage Awards

• Highly Commended, Education and Interpretation, History Site Study – Marrickville Metro – Inner West Council Libraries

2023 Royal Life Saving Awards – ‘The Aquas’

• Winner, Excellence in Aquatic Supervision

2022 Excellence in the Environment Awards

• Overall Category Winner and Winner – Division C (LGA with over 70,000 residents) – Local Sustainability Award for Powering Towards Zero Emissions
• Winner – Division C – Behaviour Change in Waste Award for Championing Food Recycling in Apartments

2022 National Trust (New South Wales) Heritage Awards

Dawn Fraser Baths

• Winner – President's Prize

2022 Master Builders Awards

Ashfield Aquatic Centre

• Winner – Excellence in Construction (Sporting Facilities)

Haberfield Library

• Winner – Excellence in Construction (Refurbishment/Renovation/Extension)

Dawn Fraser Baths

• Winner – Excellence in Construction (Restoration/Adaptive Re-use of an Historic Building)

2022 Local Government Week Awards

• Winner – Most Inclusive Youth Week Program ('Inner West Council’s Youth Week festival')

Australian Library Design Awards

Marrickville Library

• Winner – Public Libraries
• Winner – Members' Choice

More at the ALIA 2021 Australian Library Design Awards

Local Government NSW

Gadigal-Wangal Wayfinding Project

• Winner – Leo Kelly OAM Arts and Culture Award

Australian Institute of Project Management – Project Management Achievement Awards

Ashfield Aquatic Centre redevelopment

• Winner – NSW Project of the Year (Government)

More at the Australian Institute of Project Management website

The Salvation Army – Multicultural Awards

Community Refugee Welcome Centre

• Winner – Salvos Multicultural Welcome Project Award