This week's speaker
Dr Nate Rigler

 Project Lead- kia Mouriora Te kawharawhara 

Sanctuary to Sea

Please bring your items this week. 

Filling a Star box for Wellington City Mission

This year we are filling a Star Box for the Wellington City Mission.

Here are things that are suitable to donate please:

• Christmas wrapping paper
• Christmas cake/desserts
• Chippies; nuts; chocolates; relishes/chutneys; crackers/biscuits;
• canned food; rice; pasta/pasta sauce; cereals; snacks; 2 min noodles; milo/coffee; spreads;
• Baking products;
• Shampoo/conditioner.
• All goods need to be with David Barnes or Jo Douglas by 26 November please as they will be collected on 1/2 December by the Mission. For more information about the star boxes click here  .

Remember to buy your raffle ticket for this fabulous prize

Rotary conference March 20-22 Napier-

 are you coming?

We have a wonderful opportunity to attend the Rotary conference next year in Napier on the weekend of March 20-22. This is a great time of year to go to the bay and the programme looks interesting and fun. Please let Peter Whittington at syrahnz@gmail.com know if you are attending so we can coordinate travel and accommodation where possible.

President Nicole

Board Meeting

We had some excellent discussions at the Board meeting this month. 

Membership - We will follow up the members suggestions from the club forum before the end of the year with the aim to meet them in person in 2026. We have taken on board the advice to look after our current members as well as focusing on new members.

Welfare calls -We have agreed that members who are not at a meeting 3 weeks in a row will get a call to see they are ok and whether there is anything we can do to support them. The exceptions are those members who have taken a leave of absence. Many thanks Howard and Andre for taking on this important role.

Lifting the Lid- The LTL team presented an excellent paper about setting up a LTL Trust in the near future. 

It was lovely to welcome Rebecca Gray from Allen and Clarke to our meeting last week. Rebecca and the team have developed an evaluation questionnaire for the schools to complete for each student who receives LTL funding. They provided this pro bono which we are very appreciative of.

Have a great week, Nicole