The Grocery Charity Ball 2006

The 2006 Grocery Charity Ball threw its support behind the children’s charity Cure Kids.

Over the last 30 years, Cure Kids has dedicated millions of dollars to funding medical research for children with life-threatening illnesses. By better understanding these illnesses, Cure Kids aims to help improve the everyday lives of seriously-ill children and to one day find the cures that we all hope for.

Cure Kids has helped raised over $14 million to fund research, which includes world-first break-throughs into:

• Childhood leukaemia
• Cot death
• Hole-in-the-heart babies
• Cystic fibrosis
• Genetic birth abnormalities

The 2006 Grocery Charity Ball raised a whopping $300,000 for Cure Kids. (For a list of items auctioned on the night, click here.)

For more information about Cure Kids or to make a donation, visit the Cure Kids website here.

Rebecca Dixon - Cure Kids Ambassador - lives life to the “max” with cystic fibrosis.

Emily Radka - Cure Kids Ambassador - hereditary heart disease does not stop her sparkling.

Michael Topia - Full of life with Bronchiectasis

 

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."