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Dec 15, 2020 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
We invite our Rotarians, families and guests to join us for our final meeting for 2020 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell. As per last year, a wonderful finger food breakfast will be catered for by Delphine Feasts, tea, coffee and juice will be available. Cost for this meeting will be $30 per adult, in order to have the catering requirements right on the day can you please register yourself and guests by Tuesday 8 December and please make a note of any dietary requirements or email me gillj.downtownrotary@gmail.com with details. Please also advise if you will be bringing any little people along as we will be able to supply a childrens menu at $10 per child. |
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Jan 19, 2021 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Please join us for the first meeting back of the New Year. We've planned a fun fellowship event for you all so you can mix and mingle with friends and family too. Please note, there is no charge for under 18s to this event so bring along your extended family if they might find it interesting. We are kindly being hosted by Sustainable Coastlines who will give a short speech about what they do for conservation. Sustainable Coastlines is looking forward to hosting The Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland at their wonderful Flagship Education Centre -a truly unique building that was designed to align with the Living Building Challenge the most sustainable building framework possible. We'll hear from Stephanie Vercoe, Strategic Partnerships Director, about their mission to enable people to look after the coastlines and waterways they love. We'll learn about how Sustainable Coastlines work with their sleeves rolled up to keep coastlines and waterways healthy and beautiful, by delivering coastal clean-up events, educational programmes, riparian planting projects and by training community groups to become citizen scientists to gather data on the litter they find on our beaches. This meeting is charged at the usual $25 per person fee, and this includes some lovely finger food that will be served at the event. This venue is BYO, so please bring along something to drink and share for the evening. There is plenty of parking in the Jellicoe Street carpark and on surrounding side streets, at a reasonable price. Hopefully the sun is shining and we can enjoy the good weather together with members, friends and family alike. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Jan 22, 2021 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Melody Robinson - TVNZ Gen. Mgr of Sport & Events
Jan 26, 2021
Melody started out as a journalist graduating in 1996 from the Wellington journalism school. She has worked for nearly every media company in New Zealand, most regularly SKY Television where she covered and hosted three rugby world cups, 14 years of Super Rugby and Mitre 10 Cup, women's rugby world cup in Ireland, two netball world cups and the ANZ championship, Rio Olympics and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. She has also been a freelancer for World Rugby as a commentator. In 2018 she completed her MBA and consulted for two New Zealand companies. She has recently formed The Wonderful Group to encourage more diverse, more empowered women in sport media. |
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Christine Gill - Exec Director Osteoporosis NZ
Feb 23, 2021
Christine is the Executive Director of Osteoporosis New Zealand. After graduating from Massey University with a BSC (Biochem), Christine started her career as a member of the Connective Tissue Research Group, Department of Surgery, at Auckland University’s School of Medicine. Following some years gathering experience in the infant nutritional and pharmaceutical sectors, Christine held the position of General Manager of Horleys where she and her team developed a number of nutritional products targeting specific demographics within the market. For the past decade Christine has co-founded Flavorjen – a company providing innovation through the incorporation of specialised ingredients into the food and beverage manufacturing sector. |
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Celia Robinson - Founder Tend
Mar 09, 2021
Cecilia Robinson is most recognised as founder and former CEO of My Food Bag but the experienced entrepreneur founded her first business Au Pair Link in 2007, aged 21, with husband James Robinson. Cecilia’s work as a Swedish au pair inspired the business, which became Australasia's largest and the first global agency to license au pairs. Au Pair Link transformed the ECE sector and was sold to Evolve Education Group in December 2014 contributing interest to its NZX and ASX debuts. In 2012, the Robinson Duo founded My Food Bag, bringing on Theresa Gattung, and chef Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie as co-founders, launching consumer meal kits in March 2013. Within three years, My Food Bag amassed more than 50,000 customers with revenue exceeding $100 million, transforming the online retail food sector and Kiwis mealtimes. In 2016, the founding team sold 70 percent of the company to Waterman Capital. In 2018 Cecilia and James retired as CEOs remaining as directors. Since inception, MFB has delivered more than 60 million meals, has become the third largest food retailer in New Zealand, is the largest, most profitable food kit in the world, and reaches 90 percent of Kiwis through its delivery network. MFB is committed to the wellbeing of Kiwis and alongside delivering 10,000 meals each month to New Zealand charities, during COVID lockdown 2020, it launched the Back-up Bag, a world-first product. It was designed for charitable deliveries and as a home “safety” food box, and delivered 35,000 meals during Easter. In 2020, motivated by a vision that “our children and the children of New Zealand don’t deserve to inherit our healthcare system”, Cecilia and James founded Tend Health to optimise every Kiwis’ healthcare experience. The digital-first primary healthcare platform brings together formidable New Zealand leaders, including PushPay CPO, Josh Robb, and Harvard educated Dr Mataroria Lyndon as Clinical Director. The remaining team includes 20 extraordinary health professionals, technologists and entrepreneurs committed to transforming healthcare for all generations. In 2013, Cecilia won the EY Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and in 2017 she won the Business Enterprise Award and the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards. As a mother of two young children and passionate advocate for women and mothers, Cecilia launched one of the most generous private company schemes in NZ with provision for 18 weeks paid parental leave. She is an avid mentor of women in business and the community. She is currently mentoring two startups and established business women juggling a post-COVID lockdown economy. Cecilia is founding Trustee of The Prince’s Trust New Zealand focussing on Youth Entrepreneurship and the Environment, and supports multiple NZ charities and social enterprises. |
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Fraser Whineray - COO Fonterra
Mar 16, 2021
Named Chief Executive of the Year in the 2019 Deloitte Top 200 Awards, Mr. Whineray is not only one of the most accomplished NZ business leaders, but also well known for his stance on sustainability. Mr. Whineray will talk about sustainability in a New Zealand context, sharing facts and curiosities from both his business and personal experience. |
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The sport and overoming fear
Mar 23, 2021
Iris Schmidbauer has hurled herself off high places all over the world while competing on the Red Bull Cliff Diving circuit — and is one of just three women who can do a back triple somersault with double twist from 20m. But it’s not just the height factor that Iris has to get over when she competes, with divers like herself also hitting the water at about 80km/h. Iris came to New Zealand on a well-earned holiday at the end of last year's competition but thanks to Covid-19 has been training here ever since. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, though, with the self-taught cliff diver using the chance to brush up on the basics, even if it is in two parts from the 10-metre platform. The 2020 season's events were cancelled, which means the 25-year-old spent the whole year in New Zealand. But she’s hoping to stay longer after applying for a talent visa.
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Mercy Ships
Mar 30, 2021
Graeme Walls Director, Mercy Ships New Zealand Being inspired by the work of Mercy Ships in 1983, after visiting the m/v Anastasis during its New Zealand tour, I joined the crew and over the last 38 years have served on many vessels in many roles, including school teaching, leading an adult training school, Director of n/v Island Mercy, Director of Mercy Ships Australia, COO of both the m/v Anastasis and the m/v Africa Mercy and for the last 13 years in my presence position as Director of Mercy Ships New Zealand. I also met my wife NZ Sharon during this time, becoming the 98 couple to have met and married on the Anastasis and producing 3 three children in proceeding 6 years. When I first went on board the Anastasis I felt a strange impression that this vessel was going to be my home for a period of time, so I suppose you could say that this was my calling. This morning I will be sharing a presentation about the “Three Pillars of Mercy Ships” and how this brings sustainable change to Health care in the countries we visit. Also a little on what’s been happening over the last year during this Covid season.
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Viv Beck - CEO, Heart of the City
Apr 13, 2021
A great city needs a beating heart Over the last year Auckland’s city centre has been hit by a perfect storm, with the loss of international spending, people working from home, and the impact of large-scale, long-term construction. Viv will talk about this experience and Heart of the City’s work relating to recovery and transformation, as well as the future of Auckland’s city centre. |
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Apr 30, 2021 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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The Ups and Downs of a Travel Agent
May 11, 2021
Vern Walker was employed by Thomas Cook Travel from 1958 until 1998. At the end of his career with Thomas Cook Travel, he was the Manager of Groups and Conventions for 38 offices. This required formulating tours for Kiwis travelling overseas with a common interest.
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May 14, 2021 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Science & Technology Forum
May 18, 2021
Mark and Margaret Jenkins - a little about our lives, our work, our Charitable Foundation and our work with Rotary Letitia will introduce four students from AGGS will present their experiences from the 2021 National Science and Technology Forum. The RCODA sponsor students each year to attend this exciting 2 week long seminar. |
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May 19, 2021 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
The Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, in association with Milford Asset Management is delighted to again present the ‘Battle of the Suits’ debate. |
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May 21, 2021 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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