About the Trust

Throughout its history Auckland Grammar School has been a leader in state secondary education. Grammar produces academic and sporting results that are unsurpassed in New Zealand. The school has produced 16 Girdler's and Myers Scholars to Cambridge University, 25 Rhodes Scholars to Oxford University, 1 Robertson Scholar to Duke University, 5 Sir George Elliot Scholars and 51 All Blacks.

A rigorous academic education is combined with the wider development of the whole person. The School encourages each boy to recognise and pursue his individual potential to the full, and to attain excellence in acquiring the knowledge, skills and the sense of value which the School has always provided. Auckland Grammar School continues to produce young men who go on to thrive in the wider community.

Auckland Grammar School must hold fast to its tradition of excellence, through which it can ensure its future pre-eminence in secondary education. The Board of Trustees has been planning strategically to secure this future, and the Auckland Grammar School Foundation Trust was established in 2000 for this purpose.

The Trust's aims are to promote the advancement of education by charitable means through the Academic Endowment Fund (AEF). The AEF has been designed to help keep our best teachers in the classroom by allowing the Board of Trustees to recruit, retain and reward top teachers. In a bold new move, the Foundation Trust has decided to try to grow the AEF to $20 million by 2020.

This ambitious target provides a unique opportunity to enhance the high standard of education provided for boys attending this institution and will allow the School to consistently deliver the teaching excellence which Grammar is famous for. By 2020 we hope that up to 25% of teachers at Auckland Grammar School could potentially receive an annual award of 10% of salary to recognise outstanding performance and exceptional commitment. If each member of the Grammar community gives a little, our boys will gain a lot.

The Trust has governance over and administers all funds raised by the Development Office.

Foundation Trustees

The Foundation Trustees are:

Jack Porus (Chairman)
Campbell Batts
Debbie Burridge
Sir Ron Carter
Greg Kasper
Chris Mace
John Morris
Philip Skelton
Sir John Wells
Sir Wilson Whineray
 

Annual Appeal

An Annual Appeal has been an important feature of philanthropy at Auckland Grammar School since Barrie Connell set up the Friends of the School to continue on from the success of the Centennial Campaign in 1969.