CURRENT EVENTS
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PAST EVENTS
2026
22 October 2026
General Election - Meet the Wellington North Candidates
23 July 2026
AGM + Public Meeting - Bringing Wellington Back to Life
2025
11 December 2025
AGM + Our Founding Day - Wednesday
Celebrating our 16th anniversary
11 September 2025
Local Government Elections - Meet the Mayoral candidates
3 September 2025
Local Government Elections - Meet the Greater Wellington Regional Council candidates
2 September 2025
Local Government Elections - Meet the Lambton Ward/Pukehīnau candidates
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2024
Thursday 5 December 2024
Our Founding Day - Celebrating our 15th anniversary
25 January 2024
Local by-election - Meet the Candidates - Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward
With local Councillor, Tamatha Paul, becoming the MP for Wellington Central, a gap on the Wellington City Council emerged for the Pukehīnau/Lambtom Ward. In response to this, we invited EKTA NZ to co-host a very-well attended ‘Meet the Candidates’ event at St Peter’s Church. Each of the seven candidates standing for election attended.
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2023
Thursday 7 December 2023
Our Founding Day - Celebrating our 15th anniversary
We held our 15th Founding Day anniversary (aka birthday party) in St Peter’s Church on 7 December. Over 70 people RSVP’d and we had a great time. The children of Arohanui Strings played, our guest speaker Dave Armstrong spoke, and our Gratitude Awardee, Michael Person - who had become a new Dad just days before - came along to tell us more about his work with community gardens. And then we had cake!
Thank you to everyone who joined us - including the ICW team who helped make magic behind the scenes - for making the evening a wonderful celebration.
You can watch the recording of the event here, and see pictures from the evening here.
15 September 2023
General Election: “Meet the Wellington Central candidates
Schedule: 5.30-7.30pm at St Peter’s on Willis
ICW and VUWSA (the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association) organised this General Election candidates for Wellington Central event. With Hon Grant Robertson moving on to be a list MP, we knew this would be interesting election for ‘our patch’ - offering fresh candidates with fresh ideas!
These were some questions for the candidates we suggested :
Will you commit to lobbying your Caucus and Coalition colleagues to undertake an
independent review of the earthquake prone building regime - policy, legislation and implementation system (as it relates to multi-owner residential buildings) in the first year as a GovernmentWill you commit to lobbying your Caucus and Coalition colleagues to commission work to address the cost of insurance, the failing market and review the insurance obligations under the Unit Titles Act 2010 to provide options for owners in unit title buildings in the first year as a Government?
Will you commit to responding to Inner City Wellington on the outcome by 28 February 2024?
Thursday 29 June 2023
AGM
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2022
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Our Founding Day - Celebrating our 14th anniversary - Imagineering the Future
We celebrated our 14th anniversary in 2022 at St Peter’s Church. Our theme was how ‘our patch’ - Te Aro/Wellington Central - has changed over the years - and what it might become in its near and far future!
Monday 5 September 2022
Local government elections - Meet the Mayoral candidate
Schedule: 6pm-7pm (doors opened 5.30). St Peter’s Church on Willis.
PAT the Mayoral Candidates (Paul Eagle, Andy Foster, Tory Whanau)
Local government election fever was building - the candidates were polishing their pitches, and Wellington residents were sharpening their questions. Attendees came along to this free public event with their questions ready for three Wellington City mayoral candidates - Andy Foster, Paul Eagle and Tory Whanau! They provided their pitch and then it was question time.
Tuesday 30 August 2022
Local government elections - Meet the Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward candidates - ‘speed dating style’
Schedule: 6-8pm. St Peter’s Church on Willis.
Inner City Wellington Residents Association & Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association co-hosted an opportunity to ‘meet the Pukehīnau/Lambton Ward’ candidates for the upcoming Wellington City Council elections. We adopted a ‘speed dating’ style - which meant that we broke into smaller groups to meet the candidates rather than the usual “all the candidates sitting on a stage” approach.
Tuesday 24 May 2022
AGM
We held our 2022 AGM where we invited people to come along to hear about Inner City Wellington - what we do, and what we hope to achieve. We said that if you are interested in our city and how you can be involved, we would love to see you. (The event was run according to any COVID-19 Protection Framework requirements at the time.)
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2021
12 November 2021
Founding Day Celebration - Friday 12 November 2021 - Celebrating our 13th year
We held our annual Founding Day Celebrations on Friday 12 November 2021. This event featured guest speakers the Hon. Grant Robertson, and leading architect Chris Moller.
If you missed the event: