Join us for a mid-winter dinner with Colleen Upton ONZM at Focal Point Cinema in Palmerston North

NAWIC Manawatū are excited to be hosting their annual mid-winter dinner with a fabulous guest speaker Colleen Upton ONZM, NAWIC President.

Colleen Upton, General Manager at Hutt Gas and Plumbing, was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the 2021 New Year’s Honours List for her services to the plumbing and gasfitting industry and women. Colleen joined the Hutt Valley Wairarapa Master Plumbers Association in the early 1990s, later joining the Executive Committee and serving as President. She was the first female member on the New Zealand Master Plumbers Board, where she helped to develop a Diversity Policy. She has mentored and overseen the training of more than 50 apprentices. Her own business now employs three of only 44 female plumbers and gasfitters currently active in New Zealand. She established a group at the New Zealand Plumbers conference to work on increasing women’s presence at secondary school career events and the hiring of female apprentices. Ms Upton is on President of the National Association of Women in Construction, as well as being on the board of the Weltec Advisory Group and Interim Skills Leadership Group.

DATE & TIME: Thursday 14 August 2025 from 6:30pm

VENUE: Focal Point Cinema, 223 Cuba Street, Palmerston North

COST: $25.00 to members and $50.00 to non-members. Anyone is welcome to join NAWIC here

REGISTRATIONS: This event has limited capacity so please book your space consciously

BRING: Yourselves! Dinner and dessert will be provided. Cash bar available

Please note: NAWIC is a voluntary organisation, committed to its obligations as a PCBU under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Amongst other things, this requires NAWIC to take all practicable steps to eliminate, isolate or minimize hazards that our event attendees are exposed to. Health and safety is a shared responsibility.