Voluntary Work
Prendergast is Vice President of Local Government New Zealand and a trustee of the Joe Aspell Trust and the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts. She is also an honorary life member of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society.
Prendergast is patron of a number or Wellington organisations and a director of Wellington International Airport Limited and the Wellington Region Association of Midwives.
She is married and has two daughters and a son. Her son was killed on 31 March 2011 in a riding accident.
In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to local body affairs.
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