Tauranga: February Dear Community x Antipodes Galentine's Event

Event: Dear Community x Antipode’s Galentines Event

Date: Sunday, 1st February

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Mount Maunganui Surf Club, 21 Adams Avenue, Mount Maunganui 3116

Dress Code: Formal Casual, in Galentine Colours - Red, White and Pink. (Think mini or maxi dresses, or nice top with dress pants)

Leader: Niamh Vercoe

Please bring: Pinterest photos and quotes to use on your vision board for 2025

Get ready to celebrate the girls this Galentines day, with an incredible Dear Community x Antipodes Galentine's lunch. What better way to celebrate all things women, then with grazing platters and mocktails, while enjoying stunning views of the beach below. With goodie bags, beautiful decor, and empowering conversations, this event is not one to miss.

At Dear Community we are huge fans of Antipodes and their dedication to creating high quality, natural skincare products, that empower their audience to feel both confident and beautiful. Antipodes is a natural skincare brand from New Zealand, known for combining powerful plant ingredients with proven science. Founded over 20 years ago, the brand creates high-performance skincare that delivers real results while staying kind to skin and planet. Elizabeth Barbalich is the Founder and CEO of Antipodes. She started the brand in New Zealand over 20 years ago, inspired by the power of native botanicals and a desire to create natural skincare that actually works. Today, she’s a global voice for science-led, conscious beauty.

We are so happy to be partnering with them to host this event, and thrilled to have their founder Elizabeth on our Galentines Panel. Joined by two other incredible panelists, soon to be announced, these three amazing women will be covering topics like building a brand, people pleasing, how they stayed motivated to chase their goals and their favourite self-love practices.

After listening to their stories, you’ll be able to set your own goals for 2026, in the form of a vision board. Have the best time getting to know those around you, while getting to create a visual piece of art that reflects what you would like your 2026 to look like.

A personalised event from beginning to end, attendees will have the opportunity to meet their perfect match through a friendship quiz taken before the event commences. This quiz will explore various topics and themes, to help cupid ensure your sat with your friendship soul mate. If you plan on attending this event with friends, there is an option in the quiz to be sat together.

We are so stoked to announce some of our amazing goodie bags brands such as Antipodes, Morning Made Matcha and Eve Wellness products. With a complimentary mocktails on arrival, delicious grazing tables, music and stunning decor, this event is going to be something truly special, and we cannot wait to celebrate Galentines with you.

Ticket sales

Your contribution not only secures your spot at the event but, more importantly, funds our ability to host events across the country. Our mission is to extend the reach of Dear Community across New Zealand, and your ticket purchase plays a crucial role in making this vision a reality. We rely on these ticket sales to pay our charity overheads, such as leader tickets, accounting, salaries, lawyers, subscriptions, designs and so much more. As a non-profit organisation and due to the nature of our events, refunds are not possible. Please note, Dear Community is now officially GST registered which means we have had to apply an additional 15% to every ticket to go towards GST. We appreciate your understanding and support in making our community-building initiatives possible.

Please note, by purchasing a ticket, you are agreeing to Dear Community’s terms and conditions.

Attendance Policy

In order to ensure the smooth running of our events and to show respect for everyone involved, we request that attendees provide a minimum of 24 hours notice if they are unable to attend a ticketed event. Failure to do so may result in restrictions on purchasing tickets for future events organised by Dear Community.

This policy is in place to allow our leaders to offer the space to other community members in a timely manner. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.