Events

Eric brings extensive political experience and networks along with farming expertise to the role of Chairman. Eric served as National Party MP between 1993 and 2014 as well as serving as Assistant Speaker of the House from 1998 to 2002 and Deputy Speaker of the House in 2011.

After retiring from politics at the 2014 election, Eric was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, for services as a Member of Parliament, in the 2015 New Year Honours. Eric is also a Justice of the Peace. He owns and manages Glenore Farms, a Southland-based farm business providing dairy support, running beef, deer along with a sheep operation selling sire rams.

Eric was the top polling regional councillor in the recent Environment Southland elections where he will be serving a third term.

The programme has been changed for November, there will not be a lunch meeting Tuesday 8th November.

The Club forum is rescheduled to the 29th November (5th Week) - this will be the final forum for 2022 and the agenda of items for discussion will be emailed to members directly.

Come along and be part of the working bee to tidy up the floats for the 2022 Santa Parade.

Where: CP Wool Store, 815 North Rd.

When: November 12.

Time: 9am to midday. 

Rotary Club of Invercargill North is holding a duck derby - fundraiser 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022 AT 11:30 AM

Duck derby - Forth St, Invercargill

Starts at Corner Forth & Nith Streets.

Event by Rotary Club of Invercargill North

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Andrea Vance is a senior journalist at Stuff, with more than 20 years’ experience in reporting.

Born in Northern Ireland, she was an investigative reporter for the News of the World, was night news editor for The Scotsman, and worked in New Zealand’s parliamentary Press Gallery for nearly a decade. She was a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Center in Hawaii, and has been recognised with major accolades at the annual media awards. She has reported from Europe, Myanmar, China, Japan, Fiji, South Africa, South Sudan and sub-Antarctica.

Andrea was the only Stuff journalist to be selected to travel to the UK to cover Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral service in September and is launching a new book:  "Blue Blood" - The inside story of the National Party in crisis.

Voyager Media Awards 2020: Best team investigation (Product of Australia)Canon Media Awards 2014: Reporter of the Year, Political Reporter of the Year, Wolfson Fellow.

Link to join us & listen in to Andrea:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88098001050?pwd=QkhPVVRoUmNQOU1UbDZKYjFNMVpJdz09

Come along and take part in the working bee to help get the floats ready for the 2022 Santa Parade. 

Where: CP Wool Store, 815 North Rd.

When: November 19, (Saturday 9am-12noon)

Join us for our 4th week social meeting with a service aspect in the form of some hands-on service, supporting our involvement with the Santa Parade.   

Each year the Santa Parade floats are given a final check over & clean to ensure they are looking their best for parade day, (Parade Day is 26 November). 

Tasks may include cleaning, painting or other general parade prep so please dress accordingly.

District Governor (DG) Jan Boustead is looking to join us at our Santa Parade Float maintenance working bee on 22 November from 5.30pm.

The float workshop is at CP Wool Store, 815 North Rd.

There is an informal fish and chip tea following the working bee and DG Jan will give us an update on happenings in the District.

RSVPs are required to assist with catering. $10pp to cover fish & chips and a cold beverage.

If you have members unable to join in the working bee aspect but keen to come and meet DG Jan - we can make this work too.

This will be the final Club Forum for 2022 and will incorporate our AGM.

Lunch is BYO (Bring Your Own).

The objectives of a Club Forum are:

Fellowship
Opportunity for discussion
Rotary education
Update on Club activities
Member feedback

The Forum agenda and Annual Financials will be emailed to Members directly.  

If you have a suggestion for an agenda item to be included at a future forum please email President Lisa-Maree lmfkjs@xtra.co.nz.

Elected on October 8, 2022, Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark will speak about his first few week's in his new job.

Our Club would like to thank all of our speakers who have given their time to come to Rotary and educate members about a lot of different groups and topics. 

The first "service above self" community project for 2023 will the Deep Cove Working bee (January 21 and 22, 2023).

A group is required to assist the Deep Cove Outdoor Education Trust with tasks to tidy up before the schools start visiting.    

Transport to and from the Deep Cove Hostel will be arranged by boat from to  Pearl Harbour - Manapouri and then by bus through the pass. 

Working Bee tasks  may include:

• painting
• water blasting
• track clearing/maintenance
• clearing rubbish in the bush
• gardening around site and spout cleaning.

Need to bring your own:

• Sleeping bags / pillowcase
• towels
• Insect repellent 

Other information that maybe of interest is:

• Food is arranged / taken in for full group with meals prepared in fully equipped kitchen
• Meal prep, cooking, cleaning all shared amongst group
• Dietary requirements such as dairy and gluten free and vegetarian can be catered for.
• There is no rubbish facility - what is taken in, must be taken back out.
• Water is all drinkable
• There is no cellphone coverage at Hostel
• There are sandflies, lots of ! 

Space to participate in this club service project is limited – so if you are interested please contact Rob Phillips on:  027 211 2260 or by email on rob.phillips53@gmail.com  

 Want to check out the hostel:  https://deepcovehostel.co.nz/

BBQ/Potluck tea at President Lisa’s on Friday January 27 from 5pm.

Outdoor lawn games subject to weather

RSVP / Confirm address to President Lisa on 027 2304 611 

Lunch in the Park kicks off the first Rotary meeting for 2023 on Tuesday, January 31st.

Table is booked under Rotary from 12.15pm til 2:15 to offer flexibility for people to come at usual time, come later or somewhere in between and stay for as long as you can.

Lunch at own cost / ordered on arrival

Meeting format is informal with no set timeframes

Everyone welcome!

Mervyn English has held senior roles in both the public and private sectors via roles such as leading the NZ Treasury SOE (State Owned Enterprises) team, and being in the senior executive teams for the Natural Gas Corporation and Transalta.

His governance experience is broad, apart from the SOE leadership role where he was responsible for overseeing the Governments portfolio of commercial entities and setting up several new SOEs, he has been the Director of Governance in the Ministry of Health responsible for DHB Boards and other entities.  Along with this he has been a director for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and the Hillary Outdoors Trust.

He was recruited to establish NZ’s first Electricity Market Regulator. In this role he oversaw substantial new investment in the national transmission grid and the resolution of a number of important market function issues.  

Mervyn was also an Assistant Commissioner at the NZ State Services Commission responsible for the natural resources sector, was an executive in a Wrightson subsidiary, and Deputy Director General for Strategy and People at the Department of Conservation.

Currently he lives in Southland and works part time for the Department of Conservation leading Treaty of Waitangi Settlement implementation work.

Mervyn holds an MBA – Master of Business Administration (with Distinction), has attended executive education programmes at Harvard and the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Institute of Directors.

First Club Forum for 2023

Lunch is BYO (Bring Your Own).

The objectives of a Club Forum are:

Fellowship
Opportunity for discussion
Rotary education
Update on Club activities
Member feedback

The Forum agenda is: new Events / Fundraiser ideas

If you have a suggestion for an agenda item to be included at this or a future forum please email President Lisa-Maree lmfkjs@xtra.co.nz.

****PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE OF DATE******

Working Bee # 1 Sunday 18th February

from 10-4pm @ Southland Girls High School. 

Volunteers are needed to:

• Cut ribbon
• Sew
• Overlock
• Trim
• Dome

Everyone is welcomed to get involved, members, partners, friends and family. If you know someone who is crafty, likes to sew and would like to help out with a project like this – share this with them.

If you can only do one of the days or only do an hour or so on either day all good! 

We just need to register who can do what and When.  Birgit from Invercargill South Club is co-ordinating a volunteer register to ensure enough machines and / or space available .  Please email bcrean@xtra.co.nz  .  If you prefer to bring and use your own sewing machine and / or overlocker –let Birgit know in your email.

Want to know more about Days for Girls visit: https://www.daysforgirls.org/new-zealand/

Everyone is welcomed to:

Drinks & Nibbles 

5.30pm - Friday 3rd March 

Indian at the Crescent - 11 The Crescent 

Drinks at own cost.  Nibbles cost per person $10pp

Come for a drink or come for two - feel free to come at 5.30pm or later as your time permits.

Friends, family and everyone you think would enjoy the social connection is welcomed.

Harri Pickett

I'm 16 years old and a Year 13 student at Southland Girls' High School. I'm passionate about biological sciences; my goal is to work and travel internationally to research remote ecosystems and organisms, which I hope to do by studying overseas in the UK next year.

MaiaLumsden

I am in Year 13 at Southland Girls' High School. I am heading towards a career in Science but I am unsure of which field in particular, hence I am immensely grateful to Rotary for giving me the opportunity to attend the 2023 Rotary National Science and Technology Forum.

Lunch is BYO (Bring Your Own).

The objectives of a Club Forum are:

Fellowship
Opportunity for discussion
Rotary education
Update on Club activities
Member feedback

The Forum focus is:  Events - logistics andplanning for the Car Boot Sale & Jingo night

If you have a suggestion for an agenda item to be included at this or a future forum please email President Lisa-Maree lmfkjs@xtra.co.nz.

My background is in journalism and communications. My wife Sarah and I have run McCarthy Media and Communications since 2016.

The Men's Choir is the first choir I've been in since faking illness to get out of one in Form 2 at Rosedale Intermediate. 

New event to raise funds for Mitey - Sir John Kirwan Foundation's programme for mental health education in primary schools.

What:                   Rotary Invercargill Car Boot Sale

When:                  Saturday 25^th March 10am til 2pm

Where:                 Ascot Park Raceway

Event Concept:

People book a site for a car, or a gazebo, to sell anything that they own and no longer need.

A site costs $20 and this $20 goes to the Mitey Mental Health Education fundraising.

Whatever the site holder sells, makes on the day, is for them to keep... unless of course, they want to donate it to Sir John Kirwan Foundation for the Mitey Programme.

We are welcoming people who may have arts, crafts or handmade items to sell to book a site and sell from their car boot as well.

We have extended an invite to a number of 'mobile' food outlets to come and join us on the day.

Want to know more about what we are fundraising for visit: https://jkfoundation.org.nz/ 

If you would like to support this event by helping out on the day or to book a car boot site contact us by email:  rcinvercargill@gmail.com

Come & join us for an opportunity for people new to Jingo to experience and for those who have been before to gain further insight into how the event runs for our upcoming Jingo Fundraiser.

Everyone welcome – anyone reading this bulletin is welcome to join us

What:                  Social event - Jingo NIght

When:                Tuesday 28th March  - 7pm

Where:                Waikiwi Tavern

Members of the Social Committee will connect directly with members on this with a text or phone call

Jingo is just like Bingo but replaces the numbers with music. Players listen closely as the song snippets provide a clue as to the name of the song. Once the title or artist of the song is figured out and found on the game card, it gets marked off. Easy! The Jingo host will decide whether players are completing a line, a cross, a diagonal, a shape or a full house. When a player completes their card, they call out “JINGO!” and the Jingo host will verify the card. Jingo is fun for everyone! Individuals can have a card all to themselves or teams can share a card and put their heads together to beat the competition.

My background is in journalism and communications. My wife Sarah and I have run McCarthy Media and Communications since 2016.

The Men's Choir is the first choir I've been in since faking illness to get out of one in Form 2 at Rosedale Intermediate. My background is in journalism and communications. My wife Sarah and I have run McCarthy Media and Communications since 2016.

Leon, founding Director of Greenlight Innovations Ltd, a charitable entity based in Invercargill connecting people, will talk to the Governance Mentoring Program being delivered by Greenlight.

The Governance Mentoring Programme is a six-month mentoring programme, aimed at supporting leaders in governance roles of community organisations through focused mentoring relationships. The programme is a Community Governance Aotearoa initiative, delivered by Greenlight Innovations in partnership with the Mentoring Foundation of NZ. 

Want an overview check out:  https://communitygovernance.org.nz/workshops/the-governance-mentoring-programme/?fbclid=IwAR1KCarrJ6fDJiBvo_ho6ay6NN-zGoBovXnlBBsrfLlwCQ_jadtVjPcBDio

Come and have some 'fun' with us whilst helping us fundraise - great prizes and raffles to be won.

Grab some friends, family and/ or work mates and make a night of it for a good cause.

What:                   Rotary Invercargill Jingo Night

When:                  Wednesday 26th April - 6.30pm for 7pm start

Where:                 Waikiwi Tavern (181 North Road)

Cost:                    $5 per card per round x 4 rounds = $20

Jingo is just like Bingo but replaces the numbers with music.

Listen closely as the song snippets provide a clue as to the name of the song. Once the title or artist of the song is figured out and found on the game card, it gets marked off.

5 squares in a row = Line

20 squares = full house

All proceeds to go to The Sir John Kirwan Foundation - Mitey 

Jingo nights are popular so book a table by phoning Waikiwi directly on 03 2159080 so you dont miss out! 

Want to know more about Mitey, mental education in primary schools - check out:  https://jkfoundation.org.nz/

The app Shazam is able to be used https://www.shazam.com/apps