Philanthropy

Grosset Wines has donated $22 from each case of Gaia 2008 sold between September and December this year (2011). With the majority of the 500 cases already sold last month, the full contribution of $11,000 has now been made!

More than 12 million people are in serious danger in the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in more than sixty years. During a famine, children may be orphaned or separated from their parents. $22 can help a foster mum take in a child by providing a kitchen kit, sleeping mat and second-hand clothes.

This lifesaving help will be delivered through Australian Lutheran World Services. Find out more or make a donation of your own at www.alws.org.au

Grosset Gaia Fund

Jeffrey Grosset has established the Grosset Gaia Fund, a capital fund which will donate its income to organisations supporting youth, the arts and the environment.

An ambitious targeted value is expected to take until 2012 to accumulate, and the aim is for the Fund to generate an income which would allow substantial donations to those organisations. The fund will invest only in high quality companies with credentials in ‘environmental sustainability’.

Back in the 1980’s Grosset named the Gaia Vineyard after James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory which emphasises environmental rather than human sustainability but, as Lovelock and the beliefs of many ancient cultures imply, these are ultimately one and the same.

Grosset hopes that the Grosset Gaia Fund may act as a model for those wishing to establish an investment fund for charitable purposes and at the same time minimising the ongoing costs of administration. This ensures that the vast majority of income generated reaches the chosen charities.

The Grosset Gaia Fund is an Australian Government listed charity.

For more information please go to Grosset Gaia Fund