Events

Join Your Fellow Rotarians

for an Informal Breakfast at Cafe L'affare

7am Wednesday 22 January 2025

Welcome to 2025.  I hope you have had a wonderful break with lots of fun and laughter with family and friends. Now it is time to come and join your Rotary friends for an informal breakfast at Cafe L'affare, 27 College Street, to swap stories of holiday fun, travels, dinners, shows attended and other summer time activities.

It will be a big help if you could look at the menu, attached, and place your order in the comments section part of your RSVP.  Please remember to pay for your food and drinks before leaving.

NOTE your registration is required no later than 6pm Sunday 19 January.

For 2025, registration for all weekly meetings will be required by the Sunday night prior to the meeting.  This has been requested by the Wellington Club to allow them more planning time for our Wednesday breakfasts.

Our Guest speaker this week is

Susie Robertson CE Kaibosh

Food Rescue needing rescue?

Susie has a passion for people and planet, so for her Kaibosh ticks both boxes with its mission of Zero Food Poverty and Zero Food Waste. Susie’s last role was as the Community Manager at Sustainability Trust, and prior to that working in the youth health and development sector in charities and government. She loves living in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn with her whānau and their SPCA-rescue dog, Pepper. Susie is happiest taking time out in nature and can often be spotted picking up rubbish off the beach while her dog barks at the ocean.

We are back at the Wellington Club this week for our first formal meeting of the year.

NOTE your registration is required no later than 6pm Sunday 26 January.

Duties for the meeting:

Desk- 6.45am         Brad Weekly

Greeter                   Ross Buxton

Kaikohau                Nicole Barker

Opening Thought   Antony Zogg

Introduction            David Barnes

Thanking                Ryan Donovan

Sharing                  Mike Selavdurai

Parting Thought     Hadleigh Petherick

Club Reporter        Brenda Lazelle

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 26 January, 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.

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Our speaker for our business breakfast meeting on 26 February 2025 is

Hon. Nicola Willis

Minister of Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Deputy Leader of the National Party.

The Rotary Clubs of  Port Nicholson and Karori, with sponsorship support from The Professionals Wellington City & Suburbs, warmly invite you to join us for breakfast at the Wellington Club on Wednesday 26 February at 7am.

Nicola Willis became a List MP following Stephen Joyce’s departure from Parliament in 2018. She had previously worked as a senior adviser to Prime Minister John Key and in the corporate sector where she held senior management roles in dairy giant Fonterra. Nicola and her husband Duncan Small have four children and they live in Karori.

Please register for yourself and any guests by Friday 14 February, with details of any dietary requirments, so that we can advise attendance information to the Wellington Club.

Please note the early registration date.

We hope you can join us for this event. Numbers are limited to 100 so guarantee your place by registering early. The function cost for this event is $27.50 including breakfast (this is different to our normal meeting as there will be no discount if you choose not to have breakfast).

Members will be billed for both their registration and their guests at $27.50 per person. Non members please make payment to RCPN Account 03-0502-0132476-00 with your name and "Business Breakfast" as the reference.

In conjunction with the Rotary Club of Wellington

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