Easter pop-up to help pups in need

Wellsford will have a pop-up op shop over Easter weekend, when Longacres Animal Haven holds a two-day “garage sale” in the main street.

The former Frogpool Farm store at 231 Rodney Street will be open from 9am on Saturday, April 8 and Monday, April 10, selling a wide range of preloved and donated goods to raise much-needed funds for the animal rescue run by Karen Gibbons.

Items for sale will include clothes, bric a brac, homewares, collectibles and garden tools.

Gibbons says Longacres and all animal rescues are doing it hard at the moment, with costs such as vets fees and food increasing sharply and more pets than ever being abandoned by owners whose budgets are stretched.

She says she is enormously grateful to all her supporters, especially Liz Brewis for collecting many of the items that will be sold at the pop-up sale, John Bass and Jo Wilson, of Warkworth op shop Generosity Corner, for organising a sausage sizzle fundraiser and having a donation box, and other Longacres donation box holders – Hammer Hardware, Rusty Station and Wellsford Vets in Wellsford, Te Hana Café and Pets North in Warkworth.

Info: Longacres Animal Haven on Facebook