Awardee Progress Report  Jack Ilott Second-chance Education Award 2018 The John Ilott Charitable Trust has sponsored the Jack Ilott Second-chance Education Award through New Horizons for Women Trust: Hine Kahukura for many years. A requirement of the award is for recipients to provide a progress report at the end of the year. Identif... Keep Reading

J R McKenzie Trust's Annual Report 2018 is out now Read about the grants made in 2018, and a few stories of the amazing mahi people in communities all over Aotearoa New Zealand are doing to contribute to making our country socially just and more inclusive to live in. Click the image below to start reading your copy. The J R McKenzi... Keep Reading

Rotary Wellington Packs the Bus L-R: Susan Satyanand, Murray Edridge, RCW President Marion Cowden and Joan Smith At the Christmas lunch on 10 December, Joan Smith and Susan Satyanand of the Rotary Club of Wellington Community Services Committee presented four large boxes packed with gifts to Wellington City Missioner, Murray Edridge.&nbs... Keep Reading

John Ilott 2018 Funding Round The 2018 funding round for the John Ilott Charitable Trust was open from 1-31 October 2018. During this time 142 applications were received from organisations across the country. Every one of these applications is read by each of the five members of the Advisory Committee. Elements taken into cons... Keep Reading

JR McKenzie Youth Education Fund helps keeps Mana tamariki warm dry and health As part of the bulk-funding model recently adopted, Mana College received a uniform grant for the second year in 2018. This grant is funded by the JR McKenzie Youth Education Fund which is administered in the District 9940 area by the Rotary Club of Wellington. Tr... Keep Reading

The JR McKenzie Youth Education fund is making a real difference at Horowhenua College by providing a bulk grant to be used for students need support with uniforms. Below is a letter from the school Principal outlining how the 2018 grant was used, and the resulting outcomes. Keep Reading

Innovative Young Minds applications are open Apply online now for your place at IYM 2019 at www.iym.org.nz. The new website makes it even easier for students to apply.  The IYM expanded programme will offer two sessions during the July school holidays. The first session is 7-12 July and the second session is 14-19 July with 40 plac... Keep Reading

Our fourth annual Rotary Club of Wellington Akina Social Enterprise Kickstart Awards event was held on 29 October 2018 at the Wellington Club.  Each of the four finalists showcased a 3 minute video followed by a 3 minute personal pitch to present their organisation and outline how they met the judging criteria of: Keep Reading

Rotary Forum 2018 was held on 23 August, 2018. Just before the closing speech, from the Hon Grant Robertson MP for Wellington Central, the chair Roger Blakeley gave a brief summary of the speakers' presentations that had been prepared by Helen Algar. This is a record and copy of that summary. Keep Reading

City Builder Lab There is a very exciting project that has evolved from the Rotary Club of Wellington's 2017 Rotary Forum: "Achieving the Impossible Dream for Wellington: the city and region". It is called the Tawa City Builder Lab 18-20 September 2018. It is described in the attached two documents. Microsoft has agreed to provide $20,000 sp... Keep Reading