Jo-Anne La Grouw
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Jo-Anne La Grouw, MNZM
Deputy Chairman
Having worked tirelessly in our community for the past 23 years,
Deputy Chairperson and local businesswoman, Jo-Anne
La Grouw knows it well.
Well known for her contribution to
the arts, she is currently Patron of the Friends of
the Rotorua Museum of Art and History– Te Whare
Taonga o Te Arawa, a founding Trustee of RAVE (Rotorua
Arts Village Experience) and a trustee of the Rotorua
Community Charity Trust, Rotorua Festival of Arts and
the Rotorua Lakeside Concert Trust. Jo-Anne is also
vice chair of the Rotorua Performing Arts Society and
has recently completed a three-year term as a director
of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
She is also renowned for her work with
the Life Education Trust, where over the past 10 years
she has promoted fun and novel ways of raising funds
for local children. Chairperson of Save the Children
Rotorua, Jo-Anne is also the shop’s retail manager
and is the city’s representative on the Bay of
Plenty / Gisborne Lotteries Community Trust Grants Board.
Jo-Anne enjoys tending to her two-acre
garden, where together with husband, Joe, she hosts
many fund-raising functions each year. She also enjoys
spending time with her chocolate Labrador dog, Bruno.
Born in Blenheim, and raised and educated
in New Plymouth, Jo-Anne has three children and two
grandchildren.
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