Port Nic Gardeners

Let's get out there and have some fun. 

We all enjoy our annual rolling up of sleeves, donning of gumboots and having  lovely time making our auction recipients gardens look fabulous.This year we will be doing some weeding on a completely flat garden in Golf Road, Heretaunga - an easy 20 minute drive from the city. Nothing too strenuous at all (this time!). We will follow this with a light lunch and a cuppa. Some of you golfers may well be keen on going for a round afterwards.  

Invitation: Rotary Clubs of Wellington Fundraiser 

Birdwood Reserve Environmental Project Group (BREPG) invites members, friends and whanau to :Tracking Birdwood Quiz night – The Karori Taphouse Sunday 15 March 2026

This is to raise funds for their ground breaking project. Lets get a team together to support their project. 

Cost is $25 per person.  Teams are made up of 6 people per table.

The Karori Taphouse is at 162 Karori Road, Karori, Wellington.

Please reply to accept or decline this invite.

RSVPs are required by Sunday 7 March 2026 

Contact Dawn Sanders for more information: action-sanders@xtra.co.nz or  phone 027 2836016

This week our speaker is

Sarah Churstain

Chair of the Wellington City Life Education Trust

Sarah is a partner of Ford Sumner Lawyers, specialising in commercial and corporate law. Sarah has been involved with the Life Education Trust (Wellington City) since 2020. During this time, Sarah has been a trustee and supported the Trust from a governance and legal expertise perspective. Having had the benefit of the Life Education learning experience as a primary school student in rural Waikato, Sarah appreciates the invaluable education and life skills Life Education offers our tamariki.

Life Education Trust Wellington City has been successfully delivering the Life Education programme to children throughout Te Whanganui-a-tara/Poneke since 1990. This has given them a proud history in the community and helped their programmes to become respected in the education sector.

Being a health resource, Life Education takes children on a journey through five subject strands; identity and resilience, food and nutrition, human biology, relationships and substances. Exploring these strands helps them to understand the wonder of their own bodies, and how best to take care of them. Since Covid, we have also been working with a particular emphasis on building students resilience. 

In order to keep the costs to schools as low as possible, the Trust relies on donations and grants received to continue to deliver their service to the children of Wellington City through their highly skilled educator, and modern learning environment – the mobile classroom.

Please register yourself and any guests for next week's meeting no later than 6pm Sunday 15 March 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           Yon Yi Sohn                      

Greeter - 6.45am      Jane Paterson

Kaikohau                   Brenda Lazelle

Opening Thought      Jeff Lee

Introduction               David Shackleton

Thanking                   Victoria Triegaadt

Parting Thought         Peter Wittington

Club Reporter           Brad Weekly

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 15 March, 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.