Friday, 13 April 2007

JCI Hamilton City 70’s Charity Ball

JCI Hamilton City is part of an international organisation committed to creating better leaders and entrepreneurs in Hamilton, the surrounding Waikato area and around the world. As a part of our programme we believe that skills learnt are best put into practice through helping the community we live in.

Our 70’s Charity Ball is just this. A group of members are putting together all the nostalgia of the 70’s disco era in hosting this charity ball and have selected Hospice Waikato to be the sole benefactors of this event.

Hospice Waikato services include home-based palliative nursing care, collaborative nursing in outlying regions, Rainbow Place specialist children’s service, grief and bereavement counselling, family support volunteers, and a biography service. Hospice Waikato receives approx 47% of its operational costs each year from Waikato District Health Board and needs to raise another $1.5 million to meet its operational costs. All Hospice Waikato services are provided at no cost to patients, families or caregivers.

Approximately 500 people are referred to Hospice Waikato care each year and care for a further 1500 family members during and after their bereavement. Many of these patients have cancer however people with other life-limiting illnesses are also cared for. Hospice Waikato has five shops, run by volunteers that sell quality second hand goods including furniture, clothing, books, home wares, and more.

Tickets are available from Hospice Waikato, both House of Travel outlets in Hamilton and directly from me at a cost of $90 per ticket.

We would like to thank our sponsors Resene Paints, House of Travel, Addictive DJ’s

JCI Hamilton City would like you to take the opportunity, as our members are, to dust off their platform shoes, and join us to disco like it’s 1974.

If you would like more information please feel free to contact me.

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