Events

This week our speaker is

Wayne Naylor

CEO NZ Hospice Foundation

Wayne joined the Hospice New Zealand team in 2021 following on from 9 years with Hospice Waikato in Hamilton as Director of Nursing. Over his nursing career he has worked primarily in oncology, haematology and palliative care. He has been a Research Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Lecturer. Wayne also spent almost four years as a Senior Analyst for the Palliative Care Council of New Zealand before moving to his current role.

His topic is "The challenges faced by Hospices."

Please register yourself and any guests for next week's meeting no later than 6pm Sunday 7 December with details of any dietary requirements, so that we can advise attendance information to the Wellington Club. Please note - if you dont register and turn up - there may not be any breakfast available.

Duties for the meeting:

Desk - 6.45am            David Quinn   

Greeter                       Darryl Ross

Kaikohau                     Tony Robinson

Opening Thought       Ross Buxton

Introduction               Richard Westlake

Thanking                      Brenda Lazelle

Sharing                         Brad Weekly

Parting Thought          Yon Yi Sohn

Club Reporter              Julian Bateson

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise President Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 7 December, 6pm (Best do it now). 
• Please make sure you register to assist the Wellington Club staff. No registration could mean no food and no seat.
• If you have any dietary requirements, please note them in the comments section of the registration
• Include your email address and mobile phone number in the response
• If you wish to bring guests/spouse/partner, please add them when you register
• Remember to click "Save" at the bottom of the page
• If you do not receive a confirmation immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.

Christmas Perambulation and BBQ Lunch

Sunday 14 December 9.15am

at the Shackleton's Home

47 Homewood Avenue

Karori

Christmas Perambulation and BBQ Lunch

Sunday 14 December 9.15am

at the Shackleton's Home

47 Homewood Avenue

Karori

This week is our last meeting for 2025

We will celebrate by asking you to invite your partners to come and celebrate with us and enjoy:

A glass of bubbles or orange juice or both and

Fresh strawberries on the table as well as other festive things,

Plus another great speaker!!!

Who is.....

Angela Green

Executive Director at Tāwhiri Festivals and Experience

Angela's completed an MBA at the University of Auckland Graduate School of Business in 2017 and trained and worked as a performer in Wellington through the 2000s. Her management experience is drawn from producing arts and entertainment events, theatre venue administration, operations, finance and programming. She 

She has worked in roles responsible for project and financial planning, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, contract negotiation, and arts programming.

Angela is also an alumna from our first Shakespeare GCNZ NSSP in 1996! She was an early mocap artist for Peter Jackson in Jane & the Dragon (she was Jane), and first winner of the Museum Hotel Scholarship.

Her topic is "New Zealand Festival of Arts."

Please register yourself and any guests for next week's meeting no later than 6pm Sunday 14 December with details of any dietary requirements, so that we can advise attendance information to the Wellington Club. Please note - if you dont register and turn up - there may not be any breakfast available.

Duties for the meeting:

Desk - 6.45am           Paula McKnight  

Greeter                     Spencer Petherick

Kaikohau                   Hadleigh Petherick

Opening thought       Lou Bray-Burns

Introduction              Dawn Sanders

Thanking                     Marc Rand

Sharing                       Geoff Smith

Parting Thought         Rob Whitney 

Club Reporter             Linda Wellington

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise President Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com or 0275866666) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 14 December, 6pm (Best do it now). 
• Please make sure you register to assist the Wellington Club staff. No registration could mean no food and no seat.
• If you have any dietary requirements, please note them in the comments section of the registration
• Include your email address and mobile phone number in the response
• If you wish to bring guests/spouse/partner, please add them when you register
• Remember to click "Save" at the bottom of the page
• If you do not receive a confirmation immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.

Perambulator's Orongorongo Track Walk

Thursday 1 January 2026 10.00am

Happy New Year to all our wonderful members and your families!!!

Our first get together is an informal breakfast at

Cafe L'Affare

27 College Street, Te Aro, Wellington

28 January 7am

Heather has been in touch with the Cafe and has us booked in for a delicious breakfast to start the year at 7am, to get us back into the swing of early meetings .

The manager has asked that breakfast orders are to him by Monday 26 January, so in order to facilitate that I will close registrations off by 12pm Monday 26 January. Please meake sure you register before then.

Please read the attached menu and place your breakfast order in the comments box at the time you do your registration.

If you want to bring partners of friends please do - all are welcome. Please remember to place their order in their comments box when you do thier registration.

See you 28 January 7am at Cafe L'Affare.

Lou

Perambulator's Picnic Lunch in Otaki

Sunday 1 February 2026 10.00am

at Philippa and Tony's Farm

124 Ringawhati Road

RD3

Otaki