Category Archives: Events

On 10th October Jessica Starke reported back to the club on her experience attending the Innovative Young Minds (IYM) program and how much she enjoyed it. Jessica joined other students to visit companies and organization’s in the Wellington area that are involved in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or high-tech manufacturing. Rotary’s IYM provides students with […]

On May 23 Vanessa Lyall and Sue John from Johnsonville Library gave a really interesting presentation to the club on the Library. They explained the many facets to the new Library including exhibititons and performance art along side the usual lending of books that you would expect. Vanessa explained the history and background of how […]

Unfortunately due to recent changes to COVID 19 Red Traffic Light requirements, the March 2022 event has had to be postponed. As we were expecting up to 500 people to attend it is not possible to run the event with the attendee limit of just 100 people. Also many of the childrens events cannot be […]

Due to the cancellation of the Johnsonville Christmas Parade in December 2021 , Johnsonville Rotary was unable to run the Christmas Market that normally took place the same day. So, instead we decided to move to a virtual market hosted on this website. The website was very busy and we were very pleased to support […]

On 6th December, members of Johnsonville Rotary assisted the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET); one of the premier professional engineering bodies in hosting a fun Robotics Workshop at Newlands College School. 20 Year 9 students from the college got an opportunity to personally transform a set of electronic components into a Robot using a […]

Wellington Regional Councillor Chris Kirk Burnnand was a guest speaker at the club on 8th November. Chris outlined his career explained how he is using his community and business experience to use this to get things done in Wellington.

Due to the cancellation of the 2021 Johnsonville Christmas Parade we unfortunately lost the venue for the Johnsonville Christmas market being held at the same time. So, instead we are running a Virtual Christmas Market instead, hosted on the website and providing direct links to stall holders. More information on this soon. In the meantime […]

Christmas Dinner for members and Friends of the Club. All club members are to bring an unwrapped gift for a child (boy or girl) aged between 6 and 12 years

Johnsonville Rotary’s Fun Day for families with young children – Teddy Bears Picnic was on 14th March at Rewa Rewa School. Teddies brought their families for a fun day out. The event was opened by Greg O’Connor our local Member of Parliament who also was part of the judging panel to choose the winners of […]

On Saturday 12th December 2020 the club celebrated Christmas and the end of Rotary Club program for the year with a Christmas Party for members, gusts and friends. It was a special meeting as it also saw the induction of new member Maria Reyes. The club also welcomed Maria’s family as guests to the dinner.