Connecting Business, Growing Potential, Advancing Success
Business Whanganui is the leading independent business association in the Whanganui region and an Accredited Member of the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce network. We champion the interests of local businesses, ensuring your voice is heard at local, regional, and national levels.
We provide support, learning, networking, and promotional opportunities to help businesses of all sizes, ages, and stages connect, grow and advance. Our community is vibrant, dynamic, creative, and well-connected—a place where businesses thrive through collaboration and shared success.
Join us and be part of a stronger, smarter business future.
Noel Leeming Friends and Family Deals
NZCCI Alliance Partners
NOEL LEEMING
FRIENDS AND FAMILY DEALS
21 July-3 August 2025
Noel Leeming friends and family deals are back!
These deals are available for you, your team, and all of your friends and family to enjoy and apply to purchase for home as well as your business.
Click on the link below to download a PDF (from Dropbox) and pin it to your noticeboard so everyone can take advantage of this offer.
How to Buy:
Head instore to our local Noel Leeming store to talk to Russell and the team for great service as well as great deals!
OR: Buy online using the FF_COC discount code.
This offer is available for a limited time, so make sure you don’t miss out on grabbing yourself a bargain!
Upcoming Learning & Events
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Safety Managers Forum
Working Together for a Safer Community
Wednesday 13th August
Business Whanganui 139 Guyton Street
The Safety Managers Forum is a monthly gathering for Whanganui’s health, safety, and wellbeing leaders to connect, share insights, and support safer workplaces across our region.
If you would like to find out more about joining the group, email us at events@businesswhanganui.nz
Business Maker or Breaker
How Not to Accidentally Sabotage Your Own Business with Yee Ley Lau
Monday 18th August 12noon to 3pm
Business Whanganui 139 Guyton Street
Fee applies.
A practical (and slightly uncomfortable) workshop for solopreneurs who are their business. If you’ve done all the right things — launched, posted, invested — but something still feels off, this session is for you. This isn’t about more strategy. It’s a business constellation workshop to uncover what’s really holding things back behind the scenes. Because success is an inside job.
Members Business Book Club
Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business
Thursday 21st August 10am to 11am
Business Whanganui 139 Guyton Street
Our Members’ Business Book Club isn’t just about ticking off required reading — it’s a space where the group explores ideas, shares learning, and enjoys thought-provoking conversations. The books spark discussion, but it’s the collective insight and connection that make Book Club — and the people in it — something special.
Our July BA5 at J Thain Foundry has been cancelled BUT be sure to Save the Date for our August BA5. It will be a belter! More details soon.
Uber Whanganui – Coming Soon
Find out more about becoming a driver and get ready to ride.
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In the Loop: Business Whanganui Community News
Success Through Partnership: Wendy Johns’ Journey of Lifelong Learning and Achievement
Wendy Johns’ inspiring return to study at UCOL Whanganui, 18 years after first leaving, is a powerful example of perseverance, passion, and purpose. Balancing family life and a busy career, Wendy not only completed the New Zealand Diploma in Business (Accounting), but also earned top honours as the recipient of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand UCOL Top Prize Student Award.
Wendy’s success highlights the real-world impact of the partnership between Business Whanganui, UCOL, and the business community—demonstrating how collaboration can support personal growth, build business capability, and strengthen our regional economy. Read more….
Be Part of Business Whanganui
We host a range networking and learning events to help you to be more widely known, connected, informed, inspired, and more successful in your business.
From our biennial regional business awards, business for breakfast or lunch and after 5 gatherings, factory tours, just-for-fun events, thought leader guest speakers, and learning sessions, we’re sure you’ll find something to interest you.
We also have promotional opportunities for you to raise awareness of your business, products, services, and the value you deliver to your customers, including hosting a Business Whanganui networking event.
It’s not just who you know in business, it’s who knows you. Contact us to find out more.
Good Business
Putting Customers First
Strengthen your business through customer focus: No matter the size or stage of your business, customers are at the heart of what you do. In today’s environment of shifting expectations and tighter competition, it’s not just about offering a good product or service – it’s about delivering real value in ways that build trust, loyalty, and long-term success… read more
Skills
Create a Pitch for your Business
An elevator pitch is a concise and compelling statement that describes who you are, what you do, and why you do it. It’s called an “elevator pitch” because it should be short enough to be delivered during a brief elevator ride. Maybe in New Zealand we could call it a “lift pitch”, but it doesn’t have quite the same appeal… read more
Latest
Our Vision, Values and Purpose
Learn more about us, what we believe, and how we serve the Business Whanganui community by taking a moment to read through our Vision, Values and Purpose statement below and our Four Strategic Pillars – the areas of focus that underpin our delivery…. read more
