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 …

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.  

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 …

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 …

… “ 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"   

The Eastern Suburbs Lions Club has been around for more than 40 years. We usually meet twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. We enjoy a meal and a chat before we have a guest speaker talk to us and then talk about what we might be up to, to help our local community. We run a Book Fair every April, a film evening between Feb and April, a Bridge Day between May and August and various other small projects. We are always looking for new members, young and old, to enjoy their comp …

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.

Spinnaker Toastmasters Club is a popular and successful community club which meets in Plimmerton, Porirua City, and is dedicated to developing and promoting public speaking and leadership skills. Our members come from Whitby, Aotea, Paremata, Plimmerton, Pukerua Bay, Camborne, Titahi Bay and Papakowhai, plus others from further afield. We welcome guests, and guest speakers, and we're always looking for new members. If you want to develop your public speaking skills, so you can speak confidently …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Montessori Aotearoa New Zealand is hosting a series of informal social events around New Zealand for Montessori teachers to ’meetup’. If you are keen to meet other Montessori professionals to share ideas and solutions, to give and gain support from the Montessori community these meetups are a time-savvy way to build your professional community. Our first meetups are focusing on Montessori teachers; but intersted parents can contact MANZ to start Meetups for Montessori Parents.

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.

Interested in learning and practising some Spanish? Interested in Spanish & Latin-American culture? Interested in meeting people who share your interests and can share their language skills and knowledge? If you answered yes to at least one of the questions, then you should join the Wellingt Spanish/Latin-American Meetup!