Monthly Meeting
Meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of each month - February to December.
Venue
St Martins Presbyterian Church
43 St Martins Road
St Martins
Time
09.30 am - Morning tea and socialising
10:00 am - Guest Speaker
11:00 am - General Notices
Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 6 August and our guest speaker will be Brad Lake, co-founder of The Brothers Green, who will be speaking on The Brothers Green Story and the Health Benefits of Hemp.
Since 2017 Brad from The Brothers Green has been looking to change the way people support their health and to help farmers diversify their farming options. The Brothers Green, using NZ grown hemp seed as their key ingredient, have developed a range of health products with many benefits. Based in Wainoni, they contract farmers to grow the hemp, process and then retail all their hemp health products online, reaching over 50,000 people in the last five years and are now setting up a store in Sydney to grow their Australian market.
Guest Speakers 2025
Feb Margaret Copland:
Writer, Historian, Storyteller
- History of Lyttelton Goal
Mar Antony Bush:
Canterbury Sport & Spinal Physiotherapy
- Movement is Medicine
April Dame Sue Bagshaw:
Chairperson Youth Hub Trust
- Youth Hub Christchurch
May Debbie Munro:
Assoc Prof Mech Engineering Canterbury University
- Blood markers to diagnose heart attacks/design of
artificial heart
June Xanthe Rose:
History Department, University of Canterbury
- Patriotic Baking and Iconic Kiwi Foods: A Tasty History
July Dr Viv Levy:
Forensic Dentist
- Identification of victims after the Thailand Tsunami
Aug Brad Lake:
co-Founder The Brothers Green
- The Brothers Green Story and the health benefits of hemp
Sept Olivia Taylor
Christchurch City Council
- Waste Minimisation
Oct Will Edmundson
- A Perspective on the Russo-Ukraine conflict
