Peter McNeur was actively involved in ACE at a national level for over twenty years. He was a member and chair of the National Resource Centre for Adult and Community Learning between 1996 and 2003 and he was instrumental in ensuring that 192 Tinakori Road was gifted, by the Resource Centre, to ACE Aotearoa. At that time he was one of an important small group of people who helped to set a new direction for ACE. Peter was a member of the ACE Aotearoa Executive from 2003-2005 and 2009-2010, when he helped the organisation through a difficult time. He was a member of the Ministry of Education Charters and Profiles Development Group, the NZQA ACE Quality Assurance Working Group, the Tertiary Education ACE Professional Development Working Party and a foundation member of ACE Aotearoa Professional Development Steering Group (of which he was chair for a term), chair of the ACE Sector Strategic Alliance, and a leading contributor to the development of the ACE Sector Outcomes Tool.

Peter was ACE Aotearoa Member of the Year Tangata Tiriti in 2015.

Janine Devenport, the Chair of the REAP Wairarapa Board, says that over the 30 years that Peter was Director he spent countless hours supporting the people of our community to be successful. “This has been from early childhood right through to seniors. Peter has always maintained our vision of not being ‘fixers’ but rather supporting people to do it for themselves. He will be greatly missed but has left a legacy that we will honour.”