About The Grocery Charity Ball Trust

Started in 2004, The Grocery Charity Ball Trust has been established to run the premier event on the grocery industry social calendar, and direct the profits to charitable trusts in New Zealand.
The annual event is held with the support of both Foodstuffs and Progressive, as well as the New Zealand Food & Grocery Council.

The Trust is administered by six trustees:

	Don Graham, Business Development Manager, William Aitken & Co, 021 453 236
	Ross MacKenzie, Managing Director, Old Fashioned Foods Group, 021 542 206
	Scott MacKay, Director, Tosco, 021 636 167
	Rob Davis, Director, Admission, 021 653 357
	Karen Clark, Consultant, 021 271 1252
	Leanne Carroll, National Sales Manager, Cerebos Gregg's, 027 221 2588

$205,000 Raised for StarJam

$205,000 Provides a Great Fillip to StarJam
A few weeks after all the pledges had been collected for the 2009 Grocery Charity Ball, the Trustees were thrilled to find that the final tally for the night exceeded $200,000 for just the third time in the Ball's history.

"It's been a fabulous response" said Grocery Charity Ball Trust Chairman Don Graham. "When we picked StarJam to be the 2009 Beneficiary, the Trustees believed that they were a very worthy charity. But it's great to have that confirmed by the grocery industry itself .. their enthusiasm to support StarJam has been fantastic!"

Julie Bartlett, Founder and Chief Executive of StarJam, was equally effusive. "We recognise that there's a lot of worthy charities out there competing for the donor dollar, so it was great to be chosen by the grocery industry as the beneficiary of the Ball. The funds will be life-changing for us .. and enable StarJam to do many of the things that were previously on our wish-list only."

Recently, Trustees of the Grocery Charity Ball handed over the BIG cheque to StarJam .. along with a real cheque that the bank will be happy to cash. Seven New Zealand charities have now benefited by more than $1.4 million from the six Balls that have been held since 2004.