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2023 Speakers

April 13 Janice Swan – Sort Out Service
May 11 Dame Catherine Healy - New Zealand Sex Workers' Rights Activist
June 8 
Sue Kedgley - "Fifty Years a Feminist"

 

July 13 

 

Brian Bellett - Raconteur

20th Anniuversary of the first Wellington Combined meeting with talks from previous President

August 10 Simon Arcus - CE Wellington Chamber of Commerce
September 14 Bex Robinson - Head of Marketing & Experience, Consumer NZ

October 12

John E Martin - Historian and Author
November 9 HE Jane Connolly, Irish Ambassor to NZ

December 14

Tansy Tompkins - CE Wellington Cable Car and Travel Enthusiast

2024 Speakers

February 8
Tom Law from Wellington South Community Patrol Pastor Phil Coates (Gateway Church)
March 14 AGM & Mary Anderson, Enterprise Miramar

April 11 

Member Speaker - Sheila Fitzsimons " My recent visit to Zimbabwe"

Graeme Jupp, Featherston to Upper Hutt Railway, Then and Now 

May 9

Member Speaker - Penny Griffith

Chris Calvi-Freeman "Where Wellington City is going" 

June 13

Member Speaker - Tricia O'Donnell - Arras Tunnel History

Graeme Yule, Headmaster Scots College. 

July 11

Member Speaker - Todd Foster

Office of the Banking Ombudsman

August 8

Member Speaker - Anne Greig - How my OE took 14 years

Constable Ashleigh Sutherland - Kilbirnie Police Base.  Their role - How they interact with the Community - Keeping safe etc.

September 12

No Member Speaker

Gabor Toth, Local history of the restaurant trade in our society over the last 100 years.

October 10


Member Speaker - Joanna Simpson from Tommy's Real Estate

John Stevens - Administers Charitable Trusts which help Youth at Risk and Mental Illness

November 14    

Member Speaker - John Ellings - Business visits to the Middle East

Cecilee Donovan - "Grandparents raising grandchildren"

December 12

Lynette Shum - Navigating the Narrative - commemorating the sinking of the SS Ventnor in

1902

 

 

 

 

2025 Speakers

 February 

 14

Member Speaker - Colleen Spencer - The Way It Used to Be

Tricia O'Donnell

 March 13

AGM

Ray Ahipene Mercer - former Eastern Ward City Councillor, Environmentalist, Luthier, Musician 

 April 10

Member Speaker - Penny Griffith - My adventures in Madagascar   

Glenda Hughes  - "The Media" 

 May 8

Member Speaker - Peter Sledmere - I used to be a little bit famous

Graeme Burnard - An incredible journey - The magic of DNA

 June 12

Member Speaker - Kit and Ken Burford - Travels to India

Graeme Jupp - Titanic - A legend in the making

 July 10

Member Speaker - Dianne Little - "A ten day journey"

Ross Davis and Kahukura Ritchie - The BGI and investing in our Rangatahi

 August 14

Member Speaker - Sheila Fitzsimons - "Travels to Kimberley, Western Australian Outback"

Matt Morris - "Slightly foxed and heavily badgered second hand books in Wellington

 September

 11

Member Speaker - Brian Allen - "My Work History"

Christine Brimer - "Loom Weaving - Making and Metaphor"

 October 9

Member Speaker - Penny Griffith - "Photographs from Adventures to Madagascar"

Lynette Shum - Rembering Wellington's Chinatown - With both eyes open"

November 13

Member Speaker - Jane Muru-Anderson - Whenua Hou-Codfish Island and life there 200 years ago"

Joakim Liman - 'Project founder and co-ordinator of Te Motu Kairangi, Miramar Ecological Restoration - "Restoring the Coastal Forest of Te Motu Kairangi" 

December 11

Member Speaker - Alexia Stoddart from Tommys

The Mighty Ukes of Newtown entertaining us with music and song