Our Events

We gather on the second Monday of each month (February to November) at 11.45am for a 12 noon start to listen to a speaker and enjoy lunch at the Hamilton Golf Club, in St Andrews.

We welcome guests of members and just ask for $30 to cover the cost of a guest’s lunch.

Please let us know if you are coming, and if you are bringing a guest, by 10am on the Friday prior to our meetings so we can confirm catering numbers.

Upcoming events

9 March 2026 - Tiffiney Perry, Former Paralympian, Chair of Parafed Waikato

Tiffiney

Tiffiney Perry is a prominent Paralympic athlete and community leader from Hamilton. She represented New Zealand in wheelchair tennis at the 2004 Athens Paralumpic Games and has played wheelchair tennis nationally and internationally since the late 1990s. Beyond tennis, she also competed internationally in para-cycling, including hand cycling events where she notably won the femail hand cycle division of the New York Marathon in 2017.

After a life-changing waterskiing accident in her 20s left her with paraplegia, Perry channelled her passion for sport into elite para-sport competition and later community leadership. She has been deeply involved with Parafed Waikato, serving as a long-time board member and co-chair/vice-chair supporting people with physical disabilities and visual impairment in sport and recreation.

Her contribution to sport and the disability community have been recognised with a Hamilton City Civic Award. Her address is entitled: No barriers: Sport, adventure and life on wheels."


Our 2026 speakers

9 February

Ron Backhouse

Patron, Hamilton Golf Club
“A history of the Hamilton Golf Club”

9 March

Tiffiney Perry
Former Paralympian, Chair of Parafed Waikato
“No barriers: Sport, adventure and life on wheels”

20 April

Founder’s Meeting in  Honour of Gwen Firth

Kathy Shaw
Life Coach
“High-functioning burnout: coping on the outside but exhausted on the inside”

11 May

Hannah Alley
Wooden Spoon Cafe
“The Wooden Spoon journey: Food, belonging and being gluten-free”

8 June

Marie McIntyre
Wastewater consultant
“Wastewater treatment: Protecting our lives and environment”

13 July

Janet Gibb
President, Business & Professional Women NZ
“Making real change and having a voice”

10 August

Leafa Wilson
Artist
“Unearthing Community Creativity
(because everyone possesses it)”

14 September

Partners’ Meeting

Tim Macindoe
Mayor of Hamilton
“New developments in the city and in local government”

12 October

Featured Club Speaker

Jenni Vernon
Principal Advisor, Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington
“Challenges facing New Zealand’s primary sector”

9 November

Annual General Meeting 2026

2024 Guest speaker Prof Alexander Gillespie with Awatere Club Committee members