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15 November 2023: We have now reached capacity for the Johnsonville Christmas Market on 2nd December so, unfortunately we are unable to accept any additional stallholders at this time. Please ‘Contact Us’  if you would like to be added to our database so you are automatically informed of our future markets. 

Johnsonville Rotary is hosting the Wellington North Primary Schools Citizenship Awards. Students from Churton Park, Johnsonville, Newlands and Paparangi will be presented with their awards by Wellington Mayor; Tory Whanau. Attendance is by Invitation Only

Johnsonville has a new Community Library set up by Johnsonville Rotary and Johnsonville Shopping Centre. On Tuesday 26th September Centre Manager, Kirsty Macgregor and Johnsonville Rotary President, Athula Wanasinghe welcomed Wellington City Councillors Tony Randall and John Apanowicz as they cut the ribbon to open the new community library located inside the Johnsonville Mall. It’s […]

Johnsonville Rotary linked up with the Institute of Engineering and technology (IET) to run a successful Robots workshop at Newlands Intermediate School in September. The workshop is called Project X and it is a STEM activity created by the IET to enable up to 20 children to individually build and program their own robot in […]

The Johnsonville Christmas Market is planned for Saturday 2nd December 2023 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. The location will be in the main carpark of Johnsonville Shopping Centre. For more information please ‘Contact Us’

On 24th July the club welcomed Sia Goel a student from Newlands College, who the club sponsored on the 2023 Innovative Young Minds Program. Innovative Young Minds (IYM) is a program run throughout the Greater Wellington area by Rotary clubs that enables young women to experience what a career in technology might be like with […]

On Sunday 6th August club members from Johnsonville joined members of Tawa Rotary to visit Life Flight’s base at Wellington Airport. Johnsonville Rotary along with other Rotary clubs in District 9940 in raising funds to equip Life Flight’s new aircraft so they can safely transport very small children in incubators and their families in emergency […]

Martin Garcia; Past Chair of the Rotary Foundation was a guest at the club meeting on 10th July. Martin was there to say thanks and present new Club President Athula Wanasinghe with an award recognising the clubs Charitable Donations and support for the Rotary Foundation over the past year. The Foundation awards recognise the financial […]

On the 26th June the club held it’s annual changeover meeting. Outgoing Club President; Neil Haydon reviewed the club’s achievements and activities during the last 12 months and thanked all members for their support. Then Neil was joined by senior club member Bob Shennan who inaugurated Athula Wanasingha as the new President for 2023-2024