IMPORTANT: Please note that The Free Store is currently closed whilst we find ourselves a new home to operate from. Please let us know if you can help!
Welcome to The Free Store's brand spanking new website! Have a look around to learn more about the concept's history, where and when we'll be opening, how you can help the store, and what we have been up to lately. Thanks for stopping by.
The Free Store is a not-for-profit organisation that redistributes perfectly edible surplus food, right here in the heart of Wellington City. We do this simply because it's common sense and because we are compelled to freely give food like Jesus Christ freely lavishes us with grace and love. At the end of each day between Tuesday and Saturday, our committed team of volunteers pick up surplus food from cafés, bakeries and restaurants that wasn't sold that day and would otherwise be thrown out. This food is then given out freely from our shop front on Left Bank Arcade. Come check it out!
The Free Store is currently raising funds via www.pledgeme.co.nz to purchase and fit out a shipping container to operate out of. Show us your support!
Trust update: IRD number, check. Companies Office Incorporated Trust number: check. Waiting on admission to the Charities Commission register, then we'll be a proper charity.