Rotary Club of Wellington6 days, Wed 21 Nov 2018, 12:00 am
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The fellowship committee is arranging a brewing at the Occasional brewer in Adelaide Road, Newtown. The cost is $159 for a team of up to 3 people to brew 40 litres of beer, plus cost for bottles if needed (bottling would be done 2 weeks later) - the beer is ready about 2 weeks after bottling, just in time for the Christmas holidays. TIME TBC 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 Club of WellingtonTe Whare Oki Oki: A Community Services Project One of the projects being led by the Community Services Committee (CSC) of RCW has been called Te Whare oki oki. The purpose is to help homeless people with high and complex needs, such as mental health and alcohol and drug addictions, into secure housing where they can be given support to ... 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
Mana Tangata: People of Action. The History of Rotary in New Zealand 1921–2021. The Project. Begun in Chicago in 1905, Rotary was established in New Zealand in 1921 when clubs were set up in both Wellington and Auckland. The idea was that men from a range of vocations would meet together on a non-political and non-religious basis to enjoy... Keep Reading
IYM Challenges Young Women IYM 2018 was a great success, and there are exciting plans for IYM 2019 What do plastic flakes, fire engines, 3D CAD drawings, laser printing, ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, virtual reality, painted walls that turn on the lights when touched, an anaechoic chamber and early morning exercise all have in common?... Keep Reading
Now in its seventh highly successful year, Rotary Forum 2018 promises to uncover the big ideas that will provoke and inspire the future of Wellington – city and region. Twelve speakers, young and old, have been hand-picked to choose their own topic and answer a simple question: what is your impossible dream for Wellington? We are seeking... Keep Reading
RCW Supports Innovative Young Minds. The Innovative Young Minds (IYM) programme is designed to encourage young women to explore science, technology, engineering, mathematics and high-tech manufacturing - fields we call the STEMM sector. The week-long residential programme is open to female Year 11 and Year 12 students in the Greater Wellington... Keep Reading
Club donates IT gear to Te Ara centre On 6 July, club members visited Te Ara/ the Wellington Activity Centre to present ten laptops and chrome books for the students’ use. RCW has donated $6,900 for this equipment and an upgrade of IT services to enable students to do online NCEA and other studies. The centre takes up to 20 young people... Keep Reading
On Saturday 16 June, 39 volunteers (plus Ben the dog) turned up on a mild winter’s morning to push towards our goal of planting 100,000 trees by 2021. Forest at the Heart of the City gained a further 400 plants in the ground thanks to these hard workers. It was a particularly difficult site with quite a trek from the street to the steepl... Keep Reading
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