Events

Perambulators Walk – First for 2025

Totara Park Loop and Brewtown Lunch

Sunday April 6 2025 9.30-1.00pm

It's time to start the Perambulators season off and this one is an easy one. 

We will meet at the carpark just over the bridge to Totara Park - by the sports grounds, 9.15 for a 9.30 start.

Leaving at 9.30am (so make sure you get there by 9.15am), we will walk to Riverstone Terraces and back to Totara Park.

A small section has some small up and downs but the bulk of the walk is flat. One way will take us thorugh some nice bush (this is the small up and down section). We will decide on the day which side of the loop we will do first, depending on the wind  (if any) direction. If you have walking poles you may find these handy for the up and down section as the ground can be a bit rough, but for the bulk of the walk, you will be easily able to walk unassisted.

The walk will be ablout 2.5 hours. After the walk we will head to Brewtown - which is close to Totara Park and have some refreshments and lunch :)

Friends and family are welcome to join us, so bring them along.

Please register yourself and any guests by Saturday 5 April 6pm so we know who is coming.

If the weather is against us, we will email you either the day before or early on the morning.

Cheers Lou and Peter

Our speaker this week will be

Tony Robinson - one of our own

Tonys topic will be "Samaritans - the role and the challenges they face".

Tony is a Board Member of the Samaritans and his insights will be hugely interesting

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 6 April 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.

Reminder:

Perambulators Totara Park loop and Boneface lunch at Brewtown

Date: Sunday - this weekend

Time: 9.15 for 9.30 start

Meeting place: Carpark - just over the bridge at the entrance to Totara Park - right hand side.

All welcome - bring friends and fmaily.

If you have poles you may find them useful for one small bit. The walk is basically flat all the way.

Our speaker this week will be

Brad Singh

Manager of Transport and Infrastructure WCC

Brad's topic will be "Revitilisation of Courtnay Place - The Golden Mile".

Brad wiil be there, with possibly one or two others, to give us a pressentaton about the project.

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 13 April 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        Dawn Sanders

Greeter                   Edward Leung

Kaikohau                Nick Duncan

Opening Thought  Peter Whittington

Introduction           Brenda Lazelle

Thanking                Richard Westlake

Sharing                   David Barnes

Parting Thought     Ross Buxton

Club Reporter        

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) and President Jo (joanna.douglas1954@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 13 April, 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.

Our speaker this week will be

Erika Butters

Founder and CEO Volition

Volition is a company that builds the decision-making capability of disabled people and their supporters through:

• Education

• Smart and simple resources

• The Volition app - an accessible multi-media app that empowers disabled people to collaborate with their supporters and direct their own decisions, services and lives.

Erika's topic will be " Why we need a social enterprise committed to empowering everyone to be a Decision Maker in their own life through smart and accessible technology."

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 20 April 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 will not be any breakfast available, but we would still love you to attend the meeting.

Duties for the meeting:

Desk - 6.45am        Hadleigh Petherick

Greeter                   Darryl Ross

Kaikohau                Everard Aspell

Opening Thought  Hayley Burns

Introduction           Richard Brodie

Thanking                Brad Weekly

Sharing                   Steve Lawton

Parting Thought     Jeff Lee

Club Reporter        

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) and President Jo (joanna.douglas1954@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 20 April, 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.

Our speaker this week will be

Charlie Cordwell

Central Regional Manager

Life Saving NZ

Charlie's topic will be " The role of surf life saving."

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 27 April 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 will not be any breakfast available, but we would still love you to attend the meeting..

Duties for the meeting:

Desk - 6.45am        Spencer Petherick

Greeter                   David Quinn

Kaikohau                Bill Day

Opening Thought  Lindsay Chitty

Introduction           Geoff Smith

Thanking                Marc Rand

Sharing                   Tony Herring

Parting Thought     Warwick Bell

Club Reporter        

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) and President Jo (joanna.douglas1954@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 27 April, 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.

Our speaker this week will be

Serge Van Dam

Board Director and founder of various companies

Serge is an experienced high-tech company founder, director and investor. He loves globally-minded Kiwi software companies and is actively engaged with companies such as Montoux, Landlord Studio, Wiptser, Common Ledger, Tourwriter, Raygun and CoGo and is an exited investor in Publons and IMeasureU.

Serge's topic will be " Wellington's going-global software / SaaS sector - threats and opportunities in the era of AI."

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 4 May 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        Nicole Barker

Greeter                   David Barnes

Kaikohau                David Shackleton

Opening Thought  Joy Durrant

Introduction           Rob Whitney

Thanking                Tony Robinson

Sharing                   Mike Selvadurai

Parting Thought     Michaela Draper

Club Reporter        

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) and President Jo (joanna.douglas1954@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 4 May, 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.

This week will be our

Club Forum

Please come along and share ideas with our President Jo Douglas on how the Club is functioning and looking forward to how we want things to work for the new Presidents term.

Please register for yourself and any guests no later than 6pm Sunday 11 May 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        Linda Wellington

Greeter                   Rick Hughes

Kaikohau                Ryan Donovan

Opening Thought  Brent Gerrard

Introduction           

Thanking                

Sharing                   Andre Lategan

Parting Thought     Tamaris Livera

Club Reporter        

If you are unable to perform your duty please get someone else to stand in for you and advise Nicole Barker (nicolebarker883@gmail.com) and President Jo (joanna.douglas1954@gmail.com) who the replacement is.

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Sunday 11 May, 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.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY - IS BACK AGAIN

This time in

WELLINGTON CITY

Take another long Friday lunch just like we used to before cell phones and email trapped us into being visible and on the job 24/7.

Come along and join your Rotary friends for lunch and a natter at one of Wellington's fastantic craft breweries.

Bring friends and family  - all are welcome.

We have a booking for 12pm at Heyday for Friday 16 May  It is possible that one of the Brewers will come and talk to us about their beer.

Totally social, you pay for what you eat and drink.  See their menu for the list of burgers and other tasty food https://www.heydaybeer.com/.

RSVP by  Noon, Wednesday 14 May please so we can keep track of numbers.