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A new North Haven Hospice charity shop will open in the Mangawhai Village shops in Moir Street on December 13.
Chief executive Helen Blaxland says the shop will take donated secondhand goods and use the proceeds from their sale to deliver first class care.
Blaxland says Mangawhai, Langs Beach, Kaiwaka and Maungaturoto are all within the wider service area for North Haven and have long been supported by charity shops in Whangārei and Waipu.
“Our nurses are in the community every day as we have about 180 people we support at any one time,” she says. “These are people with a life-limiting or terminal illness, not just cancer patients, and can be any age.
“We’re just delighted to have found premises for a small charity shop to operate in the Moir Street shopping area and hope to be able to tell our story, of who we are and what we do, even better.”
Retail services manager Murray Annear will oversee the new premises, bringing to the position his extensive experience of charity and secondhand retail management.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” Murray says. “We’re keen to be involved more with the community and are looking for volunteers to be part of the new venture.
“It takes a few people to be open six days a week and we always need people willing to lend their experience and skills on a regular basis to help us out. Whether it’s sorting donations and putting them out, merchandising to make the donated goods look great or welcoming people and making the sales, we really rely on and appreciate our very generous volunteers.”
The new charity shop will have both clothing and home décor.
North Haven Hospice needs to raise around $3 million a year to keep it services free. That’s over $55,000 a week and $8000 a day to meet the gap between current government funding and the cost of services provided.
