Jo-Anne La Grouw
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Jo-Anne La Grouw, MNZM
Deputy Chairman
Having worked tirelessly in our community for the past 25 years, Deputy Chairperson and local businesswoman, Jo-Anne La Grouw knows it well.
A former director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Jo-Anne is 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, chair of the Rotorua Performing Arts Society and the Civic Theatre Redevelopment Project, a founding trustee of RAVE (Rotorua Arts Village Experience) and a trustee of the Rotorua Community Charity Trust, Rotorua Festival of Arts, Rotorua Lakeside Concert Trust and the Rotorua Hospital Chaplaincy Trust. 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 three grandchildren.
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