# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AVL City wide free store! 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am – Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Mark your calendars and save your donations!

We are excited to announce another community-wide holiday free store, hosted at the City of Asheville's Grant Community Center! 

We appreciate your help, volunteering, or donating items, to make this a success! 

Volunteer for an hour or more (link in comments)
Drop off clean, ready-to-regift donations Thursday, Dec. 11, 4:30-8:30 pm & Friday, Dec. 12, 10 am-6 pm (Check out the attached flyer)

Shopping is only on Saturday, Dec. 13, 10 am-4 pm: Free "shopping" day; all are welcome.

Read on for all the details:
What is a free store? The holiday free store is an event open to the community where all items are given away at no cost. It is community-based and environmentally focused!

Why have a holiday free store? 
   Sharing what we have in abundance
   Coming together to build community resilience
   Reduce dependency on a system that often overuses resources
   Extending the life of items by keeping them out of the waste stream
   Lightening the financial burden for someone who may need or want an item
   Upcycle items for others for home use or gifting! 

This year's free store pop-up is a 3-day event: 2 days of accepting and sorting donations and 1 day of shopping and cleaning up. 


When:  
Thursday, Dec. 11, 4:30-8:30 pm: Accept and sort donations  
Friday, Dec. 12, 10 am-6 pm:  Accept and sort donations; event set-up 

Saturday, Dec. 13 
10 am-4 pm: Free "shopping" day; all are welcome

4-6 pm: Event clean-up; contracted moving company will haul away items for donation

Where: Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Community Center, 285 Livingston St, Asheville, NC 28801

Who: This event is open to everyone. We need volunteers to help make it happen! Please spread the word, and sign up for a volunteer shift here. You are also welcome to donate items. Please see the accepted items list below.

Volunteers can come for as much time as they want and are needed to help manage the donations in the form of: Assessing, Accepting, Sorting.

How:  This event is made possible by the City of Asheville in partnership with passionate citizens.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/asheville/avl-city-wide-free-store/200029273950525
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit, shopping, holiday, pop-ups, calendar, volunteering
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029273950525?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=asheville-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Asheville
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Wesley Grant, Sr. Community Center
- **lat**: 35.577865945125
- **long**: -82.562110935092
- **full address**: Wesley Grant, Sr. Community Center, 285 Livingston St, Asheville, NC 28801-4356, United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/0235606a23228d069200559c046ce5b5428ee5c65edffc3c075aaa9c3ad27be4-rimg-w1200-h1553-dcda4433-gmir?v=1765065636
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/859fb5a4fca58fe4da418039d43d36e18342ac59c9de56c87dba6022a03f9522-rimg-w300-h300-dcda4533-gmir?v=1765065636

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wesley Grant, Sr. Community Center, 285 Livingston St, Asheville, NC 28801-4356, United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** nonprofit, shopping, holiday, pop-ups, calendar, volunteering
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about AVL City wide free store!  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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