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In 2025 Papamoa Rotary kept rolling up its sleeves to help out around town — running projects, teaming up with local groups, and raising funds to support health, education, the environment, and general wellbeing across Papamoa and nearby communities. Our scribe Gary crafted this amazing slideshow highlighting some of our efforts this year 🙂

The Rotary Club of Pāpāmoa is proud to support the development of incredible young adults in our community. Recently, we had the privilege of sponsoring two local youth to attend the 5-day Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) camp held at beautiful Lake Karapiro. After returning from the camp, Chloe joined us at a recent club […]

Mary has taken over from Deb Wootton and acting president Christa George. Thanks again to the Papamoa Post for the coverage

The project is funded through local fundraising efforts and a Rotary District grant and ensures that students, particularly those from lower-income households, have reliable access to the technology required for online learning, research, and school assignments. Thanks to Papamoa Post for the coverage 🙂

The weather gods haven’t been kind to us. We have postponed our 13th Annual Charity Golf Tournament to 10th April

We hear from Loretta Johnstone from Mitre 10 Papamoa about their support for us and the Papamoa community.

Mitre 10 – Papamoa (Loretta & Brian Johnstone)Bluehaven Group Bay Civil Livingstone Building HEB Construction Seeka Lysaght Consultants Maven BOP Limited Ignite Architects Sharp Tudhope Golden Homes Engeo Limited Flowerday Homes GJ Gardner – South Doherty Couplers Mainfreight Fife Lane Restaurant Pak‘n Save Pāpāmoa Colliers Hynds Property Brokers Kinloch Club Colliers Projects Bower Real Estate […]

Pāpāmoa Rotary are once again delighted to have Bluehaven Group and Mitre 10 partnering with us in running our 13th Charity Golf Tournament on Friday 27th March 2026 at Omanu Golf Club – Mount Maunganui. In the last twelve years we have raised over $300,000 for local youth charities and organisations based in the Pāpāmoa […]

Here’s one for our petrol head friends out there the Repco Tauranga Auto Extravaganza 🚗🏍️🚛 — raising vital funds for Tauranga’s Hato Hone St John. Such an important organisation doing incredible work in our community, and we’re proud to support them 🙌 📅 Sunday 8 March 2026⏰ Exhibitors: 8am–9.30am | Public: 10am–2pm📍 Mercury Baypark, 81 […]

It’s time to change things up just a little. Each year we do our best to promote those who sponsor us and our community. It’s time to see if we can do that more effectively. We’ve added a couple of new tabs here for; our press releases, straight from the media centre before it goes […]

RYLA is an intensive, professionally developed Rotary leadership programme which aims to foster and grow emerging leaders. Participants attend a week long residential workshop taking part in a range of experiences including seminars and group activities designed to develop both self-leadership and leadership of others.A. The program is open to participants aged 21-26 years. The […]

Join us on Thursday 30th October at the Luxe Cinema, Papamoa as we view this movie documenting a horrific event in New Zealand history. 28 men went to work and did not return home. “Every now and then, a film comes along that completely satisfies; speaks to your own sensibilities and is riveting from the […]

As a club we celebrated giving to worthy community minded organisations a very large proportion of the funds raised in the last 12 mths. Some has been tagged as the year progresses and the largest dollar amounts were presented on Thursday evening.

Pāpāmoa Rotary are once again delighted to have Bluehaven Group and Mitre 10 partnering with us in running our 12th Charity Golf Tournament on Friday 28th March 2025 at Omanu Golf Club. In the last eleven years we have raised over $250,000 for local youth charities and organisations based in the Pāpāmoa and Te Puke […]

As always our club members did Papamoa Rotary proud by supplying such an array of finger foods. With about 20 visitors from community groups within Papamoa and Te Puke, on board to receive the funding support they all deserve. On opening the meeting President Deb acknowledged all the fundraising was made in Christa’s Presidential year, […]

This Orphanage was initiated by Godlisten Kaaya some five years ago. Godlisten himself was a street kid for the first eight years of his life and from there went into an orphan home until a 14yr old, where he had to sit the national examinations which determined whether a child could go to higher […]

It was fabulous night at the Trinity Wharf Waterfront Hotel where we celebrated our past years achievements and thanked our outgoing president Christa George. We were joined by friends of Papamoa Rotary including District Governor Bill Robinson. Long time Rotary stalwart Sean was awarded an Honorary Membership in recognition of his meritorious contribution to […]

We took time time to thank two of our supporters with Honorary Membership. We recognise Gary and Martin who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service and their embodiment of Rotary ideals. We definitely consider them friends of Rotary for their support of Rotary’s causes. Thanks guys

A great night mixing and mingling in fellowship at Mumbai Masala Papamoa

2024 Rotary District Conference A few snaps from our recent conference held at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre & the Cambridge Town Hall. Hopefully our first time attendee Jude will be able to provide her insights into what was yet another inspiring uplifting and challenging event. All photos are used with the permission of their […]