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The next Grocery Charity Ball will be held in Auckland on Friday 28 August 2009.

Watch this website for further details or use the request form at right to be notified when further details are available.

Otherwise, the Grocery Charity Ball Trust can be contacted as follows:

General enquiries
Use the contact form on right or phone Alex Mitchell of S2N Events on (+64) 027 275 7222.

Beneficiary enquiries
To enquire how your charitable trust can become a beneficiary of future Grocery Charity Balls please click here.

Sponsorship enquiries
To enquire how your organisation can sponsor the next Grocery Charity Ball or provide items for auction:
Scott MacKay, Director, Tosco, 021 636 167.

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The Grocery Charity Ball, PO Box 188, Greenhithe, Auckland.

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Charity Ball has raised $1million+
Since the Grocery Charity Ball Trust was set up 5 years ago, over $1million has been raised for New Zealand Charities.


Established in late 2003, the Trust chose Cystic Fibrosis to be the beneficiary of its inaugural charity ball in 2004, and was thrilled at the response from the grocery industry which saw $100,000 raised on the night.

The Trust received over 50 applications from potential beneficiary trusts the following year, all deserving charities for the 2005 Ball. From the applicants, the Trustees selected Project K, and the 2005 Grocery Charity Ball raised $150,000 for this children's development trust.

In 2006, Cure Kids became the recipient of the Ball's fundraising, and the amount raised by the over 600 people who attended doubled to $300,000.

Believing that the 2006 figure would be difficult to eclipse, the Trustees were astonished when the 2007 Ball raised a staggering $500,000 for Life Education - enabling the Trust to fund two new mobile classrooms in the greater Auckland area.

"Although this year's donation of $150,000 to 0800 What's Up and Hearing Dogs For Deaf People is down on the previous couple of years," says Trust chairman Ross MacKenzie "It's still an excellent result in a recessionary economy. It's quite humbling for the Trustees to appreciate that the grocery industry has now donated $1.2million to 6 worthy charities in New Zealand."