Wellington Young Professionals

Good Evening all!

Just a quick reminder that we would love for you to join us tomorrow at The Arborist Rooftop Bar from 5:30 pm onwards. We’ll be running a Networking Event, similar to our previous drinks event last month, to help you connect with more like-minded individuals!✨

We will have complimentary nibbles available and, as always, the opportunity to win a free drink from us on the night! 🍸

Check out the event on our Facebook or on our website for further details.

-WYP team

Hey, young professionals!

Hope you all had a good week and are keeping warm! This year, we are committed to providing more valuable activities and experiences to help you expand your connections. Therefore, we recently launched our official Wellington Young Professionals Instagram page .young.professionals. This page will contain information to help you guys stay updated on future events and activities in real-time!😀

Additionally, our July Networking Drinks are on Wednesday the 24th of July at The Arborist Rooftop Bar from 5.30pm onwards. We’ll have complimentary nibbles available, and most importantly, it's a fantastic opportunity to connect and share ideas with like-minded individuals! 🎉

-WYP Team

Mānawatia a Matariki ✨️ we hope that everyone has a fantastic long Matariki weekend and got to spend time with friends and whanau!

Thank you to everyone who turned up to our June Networking Drinks this week on Wednesday. Despite the cooler weather we still had a fantastic turnout and we can't wait to see you all next month for our July Networking Drinks at The Arborist Rooftop Bar.

Ngā mihi,

WYP Team

Hey young professionals!

A reminder that we’d love for you to join us for our next monthly event on Wednesday the 26th of June from 5:30pm at the Arborist. We’ll have complimentary nibbles available, as well as the usual opportunity to network with like minded individuals.

Check out the event on our page!

- WYP Team

Happy long weekend Wellington Young Professionals! It was fantastic to see so many of you on Wednesday at our Monthly Networking Drinks down at The Arborist Rooftop Bar. We had a great turnout for our Speed Networking event, despite the colder weather. Don't forget that we've got our June Networking Drinks this month on the 26th, we can't wait to see you all there.

- WYP Team

Good Evening!

Quick reminder that we’d love for you to join us this week on Wednesday from 5:30pm at the Arborist. We’ll be running a Networking event, similar to our previous drinks event last month as a chance for you to connect with new people.

We’ll have complimentary nibbles available.

Check out our event (its here on Facebook), or on our website for further details.

- WYP Team

This week we farewell our Secretary Abdul, who has been an incredible addition to the committee for the last couple of years.

Thank you Abdul for all that you've done for Wellington Young Professionals in the time that you've been with us. We appreciate all of your hard work, and wish you the best in your next exciting chapter! Throwback to 2022, when the committee at the time (including the fantastic Abdul) went to Toast Martinborough and had an absolute blast.

- WYP Team

Hey young professionals!

As we mentioned this year we’re focused on providing more valuable experiences to our members, with more activities to help you expand your connections.

We’d love for you to join us for our next monthly event on Wednesday the 29th of May, 5:30pm at the Arborist. We’ll be running another Speed Networking event as a chance to connect with new people.

We’ll have complementary nibbles available!

Check out the event on our page!

- WYP Team

We have an opportunity at WYP to join our awesome Committee as the Marketing and Comms Manager!

Making sure our social media and website presence hits the mark, while enjoying all of our events and being on a great committee, are all part of the role.

WYP is a group of volunteers who are all focused on bringing the best networking and professional development events to Wellington.

If you want to know more, or to chuck your hat in the ring, flick us a message or email Sophie on [email protected]

Thank you to all of you who attended our April Networking Drinks this week on Wednesday, we had an incredible turn out at The Arborist Rooftop Bar. Martha, our Sponsorship Manager and Jasper, our Treasurer ran a successful Speed Networking event that we hope you all enjoyed! Moving forward, we'll ensure that we continue to provide interactive Networking Drinks with different activities each month. Keep an eye out on our page for more events, coming up soon.

- WYP Team

Hi again!

Quick reminder that we’d love for you to join this Wednesday, 5:30pm at the Arborist. We’ll be running a lighthearted Speed Networking event as a chance to connect with new people.

We’ll have complementary nibbles available and even a chance to win a drink on us!

Check out our event (its here on Facebook), or on our website for further details.

- WYP Team

We still have an opportunity at WYP to join our awesome Committee as the Marketing and Comms Manager!

Making sure our social media and website presence hits the mark, while enjoying all of our events and being on a great committee, are all part of the role.

WYP is a group of volunteers who are all focused on bringing the best networking and professional development events to Wellington.

If you want to know more, or to chuck your hat in the ring, flick us a message or email Sophie on [email protected]

Thank you all of those that attended our first Networking Drinks at The Arborist Rooftop Bar last week! It was great to see you all and we're incredibly excited to get the year off to a good start. We've got our committee Strategy Day this weekend, and we can't wait to share what's in store for you all this year.

- WYP Team

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2023 WYP Christmas Party earlier this week on Wednesday at The Arborist Rooftop Bar! We had an incredible turnout and hope that you all enjoyed yourselves. We can't wait to see you all next year at one our events, take care and stay safe this holiday season.

- WYP Team

You've been waiting for this all year, it's time to let your hair down at the Wellington Young Professionals Christmas party!

We've got you sorted with drinks deals, prizes and entertainment to boot that will have you happier than Macaulay Culkin in a hotel room with his Dad’s credit card and room service. As usual, it's free for members and just $10 for non members. Space is limited so grab your spot early!

Each ticket includes a free drink, we'll have games and a prize draw so make sure you get in quick!

Tickets are available here: https://wyp.co.nz/events/2023-wyp-christmas-party/

See you there!

Despite having incredible weather last night here in Wellington, we still had a great turnout to our October Networking Drinks at The Arborist Rooftop Bar. We love seeing all of our regulars come along, as well as some new faces every month.

Keep a look out for our infamous WYP Christmas Party which we'll advertise within the next week. There will be prizes, games and drink deals all night so bookings will be essential!

- WYP Team

Thank you to everyone who attended our WYP AGM & September Networking Drinks a couple of weeks ago and took part in the formalities. We farewelled a few of our great committee members (Neeraj, Harley, Karen, Liam and Janice) and Jareen was nominated as our new President! We also welcomed Jasper as our Treasurer and Georgia in Events, and Abdul will remain as Secretary with Sophie stepping down to Vice President.

For details around our new committee, please check out our website here: https://wyp.co.nz/committee/

We're still on the hunt for a Marketing/Comms Manager and a Sponsorship Manager so get in touch if you've got any questions or want to throw your ring in the hat for either role.

- WYP Team

A reminder around the event tomorrow with Rainbow Wellington who have teamed up with their friends at Robert Walters to bring you a professional networking event on Thursday 28 September from 5:30PM.

Rainbow Wellington is a non-profit organisation providing support and advocacy on human rights issues within the LGBTQIA+ community since 1997.

Please email Bailey Welsh ([email protected] ) to RSVP for this event - he's provided us with the guest code RWGuest! Which you can use through the event link below.

- WYP Team

Rainbow Wellington has teamed up with our friends at Robert Walters to bring you a professional networking event on Thursday 28 September from 5:30PM.

Rainbow Wellington is a non-profit organisation providing support and advocacy on human rights issues within the LGBTQIA+ community since 1997 - we’ve teamed up with our friends at RobertWalters to bring you a professional networking event.

Leading recruitment consultancy Robert Walters will be extending their hospitality to Rainbow Wellington with light finger food provided and a range of complimentary refreshments (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) all evening.

Robert Walters is the world’s leading specialist professional recruitment consultancy because they take the time to listen to, and fully connect with, their clients and candidates. Their ability to truly understand people and then help them to create and share compelling stories is what sets them apart. The biggest opportunities start with a story. Tell yours today.

Please email Bailey Welsh ([email protected] ) to RSVP for this event - he'll come along to our WYP AGM & September Networking Drinks next as well if you've got any questions!

We have an opportunity at WYP to join our awesome Committee as the Marketing and Comms Manager at our AGM next week.

Making sure our social media and website presence hits the mark, while enjoying all of our events and being on a great committee, are all part of the role.

WYP is a group of volunteers who are all focused on bringing the best networking and professional development events to Wellington.

If you want to know more, or to chuck your hat in the ring, flick us a message or email Sophie on [email protected]

Thank you to all of those that attended the incredible session today with Reddyn and Scott from the Sharesies team. They shared their investing insights and their passion for all things Sharesies, we all learnt something new to take away from the session.

Don't forget our upcoming WYP AGM & September Networking Drinks on the 27th of September at The Arborist Rooftop Bar from 5.30pm - we've got a couple of open committee positions available so feel free to message us if you're keen to get involved.

- WYP Team

Looking at padding up that CV with a new volunteering role? Want to make some new yopro friends? Join the committee as one of our amazing Events Coordinator!

Our amazing Events Coordinators play a crucial role in providing our members with interesting and varied events to be part of - bring your creative ideas and planning skills and make an impact on fellow young professionals in Wellington. If you've ever attended on of our events or networking drinks, they're the ones who make it happen!

We're on the looking for TWO event coordinators at the end of September! If you want to know more, let’s grab a coffee! Send us a message or email Sophie on [email protected]

Fancy yourself a finance wizz? Wanting to add the coveted “Treasurer” title to your CV? Join our WYP committee from the end of September!

The Treasurer is responsible for maintaining the WYP accounts, including the bank account, paypal and tax. Plus you’ll make some great friends with our committee and members too!

If you want to know more, let’s grab a coffee! Send us a message or email Sophie on [email protected]

WYP is excited to present in partnership with the Young Lawyers' Committee Wellington the YLC x WYP Ball 2023! Tickets are on sale below, get in quick 🌻🌸🌼

- WYP Team

YLC x WYP Ball | Humanitix YLC x WYP Ball , Hosted at 3 Queens Wharf, 3 Queens Wharf, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Sat 9th Sep 2023, 8:00 pm - Sun 10th Sep 2023, 12:00 am NZST. Tickets are between $80-$95. Only on Humanitix

Kia Ora,

We regret to inform you that the Women in Leadership - Tory Whanau X WYP event will be cancelled due to our guest speaker being unwell. We'll get in contact with all ticket holders shortly and provide a full refund where needed. We'll ensure that we get onto organising an alternative Women In Leadership session and we really appreciated all the support and excitement around this event.

Ngā mihi,

WYP Team

It was lovely to see a whole bunch of young professionals at our Networking Drinks tonight, despite the chilly weather. A reminder that we've got our Women in Leadership - Tory Whanau X WYP event next week Wednesday, don't forget to grab your tickets through the event page!

Tonight we also had Creative HQ come along to present about The Innovation Hack. The Innovation Hack is a 15 week programme, built for Gen-Z. Participants will work alongside Wellington organisations to solve real problems with meaningful impact, all the while, growing their own skills and innovative capabilities. At the end of the programme, participants will have earnt Creative HQ's Certificate in Applied Innovation, and gained transferable, future focussed skills that can help them land their next job. This is a free programme, and designed to work around the demands of school or work.

Applications close in 1 week on 31 July at 8pm. To apply or learn more see the following link: https://creativehq.co.nz/innovation-hack/

- WYP Team

Thank you to everyone that came along to our last Networking Drinks, make sure you come along to next week's from 5.30pm at The Arborist Rooftop Bar.

Also, we've got two Events coming up which we're very excited to run. The first one is with Mayor Tory Whanau on the 2nd of August from 5.30pm - tickets are available through the event page here: Women in Leadership - Tory Whanau X WYP.

The second event is with Sharesies on the 23rd of August, and tickets can be found through the event page here: Sharesies X WYP.

We look forward to seeing you at our next events or Networking Drinks!

- WYP Team

Thank you to everyone who attended our Networking Drinks last week Wednesday, it was lovely to see you all at The Arborist Rooftop Bar!

We've got some great events planned over the next couple of months so keep your eyes peeled out for them here on our page.

- WYP Team

Thank you to everyone that came along to our Networking Drinks last week on Wednesday, it was great to see you all there! We had Justine come along from the Asia New Zealand Foundation to talk about the Leadership Network that they're currently promoting so make sure to take a look if you're interested in applying here: https://www.asianz.org.nz/leadership

A reminder that we've also got our Women In Leadership event on the 17th of May with Tory Whanau, it'll be an invaluable session so make sure to book tickets through our website here:
https://wyp.co.nz/events/women-in-leadership-tory-whanau-x-wyp/

- WYP Team

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to our monthly networking drinks at The Arborist Rooftop Bar on a super chilly Wednesday! We'll see you all next time. Make sure to keep an eye out as well on our page for exciting events that we've got planned over the next couple of months.

- WYP Team