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.
Also check out other Nonprofit events in Asheville.
