2018 Music Prizes Each year, three music prizes are award students at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music to supported by the Rotary Club of Wellington. The prizes were made possible by Trust funds established by Sir Roy McKenzie OBE and Sir John Ilott, both well-known New Zealand philanthropists who were avid supporters of young musician... Keep Reading

Melbourne Cup Day Address President Denise Church addressed an audience gathered at the Australian High Commission to view the Melbourne Cup race and support Rotary: Give Every Child A Future.  Below is a transcript of the address.Your excellency and distinguished guests It’s an honour to speak on behalf of the Rotary Club of Welling... Keep Reading

Rotaract-Rotary Mentoring Programme The Rotary Club of Wellington is proud to partner with Rotaract Wellington to develop an exciting mentoring opportunity. The Rotary/Rotaract Mentoring Programme aims to pair one Rotarian with one Rotaractor to facilitate a bilateral mentoring relationship. The Programme will provide each party with the o... Keep Reading

A wonderfully successful event was held on Tuesday 6 August 2019 at St Andrews on The Terrace. An audience approaching 180 enjoyed a fabulous series of performances from six of New Zealand's most talented young opera singers accompanied by world-renowned pianist, Terence Dennis. The night was a huge success with a series of fabulous... Keep Reading

Let's Join Those Dam Rotarians in India - February 2020! Rotarians and their families world-wide are invited to join the Rotary Club of New Delhi Megapolis, India and Rotary Club of Sanford-Springvale, Maine, USA in their joint Water Conservation project: the construction of a check-dam at the edge of the Thar Desert. Note: Your club’... Keep Reading

In 2015 the Wellington City Council approached the Rotary Club of Wellington with a request to partner with the Council to set up a vermin trapping initiative in the Mt Victoria Town Belt. Donna Dentice agreed to become the Rotary Club’s representative and, in February 2016, she and Tim Park, the Wellington City Council Partnership Officer,... Keep Reading

We started the afternoon with a tri-lingual welcome, with mana whenua mihi starting us off from Wayne Mulligan, and English and sign-language welcome from Karen Coutts. Mayor Justin Lester welcomed us with his vision of Wellington 2050 being a zero-carbon city, with no homelessness, recognising Te Reo, with an integrated transit system. Keep Reading

News & Stories links. These items have relevance to our aim of creating a fully sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand, and to tackle climate change by planting native ecosystems in perpetuity in every community in the nation. Keep Reading

The difference one grant can make This is an extract from an accountability report from Common Unity Project who received a John Ilott Charitable Trust grant in 2018. Please describe the benefits to your organisation and the community with respect to the grant received. The purpose of this grant was to contribute towards the part-time sal... Keep Reading

As an extension of our Forest at the Heart of Wellington and Trees of Remembrance projects, Wellington is about to embark on its largest community-led tree-planting programme with a $490,000 boost from the Government’s One Billion Trees Programme. Volunteers will plant at least 45,000 natives in the Mt Victoria Town Belt over three years,... Keep Reading