Toastmasters teaches public speaking and leadership skills. By learning to effectively express your ideas, you open an entirely new world of possibilities. You’ll be more persuasive and confident when giving presentations, and you’ll improve your one-on-one dealings with others. Peninsula Presenters is a small, suburban Toastmasters club with a relaxed, informal atmosphere. We meet on alternate Monday evenings from 7.15 to about 9.15 pm. in the Uniting Church building at the corner of Hobart St. …

… “ Great fun-loving bunch of people ”   “ Cool! Lots of fun. Great people ”   “ Can't wait to do another trip. Best thing I ever did ” "An absolute must if you have even a single adventurous atom in your body! " Great mix of activities - something for everyone! ”   “ Excellent group, non fanatical and all inclusive ”   "Really great way to try different things, meet new people and have fun along the way. Great group"   

I was so moved and inspired by what I saw at the Oxfam Trail Walk New Zealand this past March 2012, that I have decided to invite more women to experience what I experienced. Whats the goal of this: Well, to accomplish awesome new friendships, get on a doable, one year goal, meet new people and build more compassion and humanity in the world, because I am a strong believer that when women get together we are a force to be reckoned with. This will happen in two stages. The first stage is a six mo …

I started this group as a place for people who want to go out to great little cool places and meet new people in Wellington. If you want to dig out the coolest little venues and events in Wellington with people from here and overseas then join in to those meetups posted or post your own.

Bringing local web industry pros together socially now and then in warm bars around town. Meet like-minded folk in the industry over a drink! Pop along if you're footloose & fancy free.  

Wellington Social Couples was created with couples socialising in mind! You may be a busy professional couple, not often finding the time to socialise; you may have both just moved to Wellington or you may be a couple who generally wants to widen their network of friends. W.S.C is great way to meet other couples, especially in this busy world we live in!  The group gives each couple an opportunity to not only have fun and connect with each other but also to network & socialise together, establis …

Connect with developers. Share tips and tricks. Discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., .NET, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial development. These Dev Meet ups will be held Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.  Also other locations if people are interested.

This is a new group for members of the Wellington Meetup community that want to get together and take action on the social and environmental issues that matter to us, whether they be local, national or international. Meetups will initially focus on helping out existing community groups with activities such as tree planting, beach cleaning, track cutting and helping out groups working with vulnerable communities. We'll also meet monthly in the pub and spend time writing that letter or sending tha …

Hutt City Toastmasters meets every second Thursday to work on conversation, public speaking, organization, and leadership skills. We believe in learning by practicing in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Join us, at the Community Resource Centre, opp the Dowse, at 7:30pm

Pensive Faust Book club is a reading group that meets in Wellington CBD.   We aim to bring together wit, wisdom and offer a new cultural revolution to the Wellington scene. Fuse lively, creative events with brain-teasing and mind-expanding food for thought in the form of discussions, events and exploration of books and music. We usually read contemporary fiction but are not limited to literary genre, being fond of good discussions and a fulfilling read we at times choose something completely dif …

This group was started to organize a Coding Dojo in Wellington. The main focus is on Java and Java-related technologies (Groovy, Grails, Scala...), though other technologies are welcome as well. A Coding Dojo is a place where programmers come to improve their skills, by following a pattern similar to the martial arts dojo. Patricipants meet for at a pre-arranged time in a room that has one computer attached to a screen. A programming challenge is posed for each session. There are a couple of …

The Wellington Backyard Poultry Meetup Group is for people who have small backyard flocks of chickens for pets, eggs, and meat. You just might be suprised at how many people living in your neighborhood have pet chickens! There is nothing quite like walking outside in the morning to gather fresh organic eggs for your breakfast! We welcome everyone that has a small backyard flock of chickens, and those that are interested in getting started raising a small backyard flock of chickens. W …

Do you have an interest in Information Technology? Would you like to meet up with like-minded people, build relationships, and share ideas and knowledge? The Make IT Work group aims to foster innovation and improve the way we use technology in business, research, education, and society Technology has enormous potential to help us work, think, communicate, organise, discover, teach, learn and trade. But technology does not always deliver on this potential. Why not? How can we make technology b …

Property Investing is such a broad subject with so many different ways of being an Investor. In the last few years the Investors who had an arsenal of skills, have seen some of the best market conditions for buying for many years, of course the people who were trading along the lines of the traditional and known methods taught in NZ, have generally fallen by the way because the market conditions were not right for those particular types of strategies. For all you Investors in Wellington and surr …

Wellington is a great city, full of wonderful things! This group goes, does, sees, feels, enjoys those wonderful things. Join us as we explore the wonders of this great city of ours.

Regular meetings and tech talks on various web technology topics and tooling: - HTML5/CSS/JS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Dreamweaver, Edge, PhoneGap - Adobe Flash Platform, Apache Flex, AIR, BlazeDS - PDF Forms, Acrobat, LC ES - ColdFusion, Java, AMF Remoting, Node.js, Clojure and whatever else comes to mind.