Free Trade Day

11/10/2026

Nominations are now officially closed. Now comes the huge job of turning people’s hopes into help. 🧡🖤

This photo takes us back to 2024, when we were lucky enough to have Johanna Griggs and Better Homes and Gardens cover one of our Free Trade Day jobs.

With less than four weeks until 6 November, our goal is simple: get as many tradies as possible helping people who really need it, and change as many lives as we can across the Central Coast.

Here’s how it works: people nominate someone doing it tough, we match their needs with trade businesses willing to donate their skills and time, and we raise money for the materials to make those jobs happen.

**Over 150 trade businesses have already put their hands up.** These tradies are the backbone of Free Trade Day. A repair they can knock over in a few hours might be something a family has lived without for years — and getting it fixed can restore safety, independence and dignity.

Helping us make that possible are our incredible partners, including Harris Farm, Challenger Logistics, The Leasing Network, Walker Brothers Timber and Building Supplies, JC Entertainment, Gibson Scrap, Batemans Bay Hotel, St George Bank Tuggerah, John R. Turks, ANL, Express Timber Solutions, Central Coast Tile and Stone Warehouse, Brian Hilton North Gosford, Local Search, Triple M and Husqvarna. 🙌

But the biggest shout-out goes to the volunteers putting all of this together in their own time.

Behind every job are phone calls, hard decisions, materials to organise and people determined to make it happen.

What you see is amazing. Behind the scenes, it doesn’t always go smoothly. Sometimes plans fall through. But for every disappointment, there are so many people who turn up, follow through and remind us how much good this community can do.

We can’t promise to fix everything. We’re giving everything we’ve got to help as many people as possible.

That’s Free Trade Day. The Business of Kindness.

www.freetradeday.com.au

09/10/2026

Blue Coast Painting showing their passion! 🤣

See in 4 weeks Central Coast, many lives will be changed.

09/10/2026

Our hero tradies bring the skills, the tools and the heart. Local Search helps us put the materials in their hands as well as finds us the best of the best tradies. 🧡🖤

Their support for Free Trade Day helps us buy the materials that turn a tradie’s generosity into a safer home, a working bathroom or repairs someone has spent years unable to afford.

For someone doing it tough, that can mean getting their independence, confidence and dignity back.

The Local Search team works with tradies every day, helping local businesses get seen and grow. They’re a great team for our hero tradies to lean on and we’re grateful they’re backing those same tradies to change lives across the Central Coast.

**Thank you, Local Search, for helping us turn kindness into something people can live in and feel every day.** 🙌

06/10/2026

🚨 ONE MONTH TO GO! 🚨

In exactly one month, something pretty bloody special is going to happen on the Central Coast.

On Friday, November 6, hundreds of tradies and volunteers will put their own work aside, grab their tools and head out across the Coast to help people who genuinely need it — completely FREE of charge. ❤️

We’re talking electricians, builders, plumbers, painters, carpenters and businesses from right across our community, all coming together for one reason:

To use what they’re good at to make someone else’s life better.

We’re closing in on 500 volunteers, and right now we’re matching our trade businesses with people and families who need them most.

Some jobs will take two hours. Some will take all day.

But every single one has the potential to restore a little dignity, hope and faith in humanity.

One month to go, Central Coast. 🔨❤️

This is going to be something special.

FREE TRADE DAY — NOVEMBER 6, 2026

03/10/2026

🚨 PLASTERERS, TILERS & CONCRETERS — WE NEED YOU! 🚨

We’re right in the thick of matching our Free Trade Day jobs, and very soon our tradies will start receiving opportunities to help people who are genuinely doing it tough across the Central Coast.

But we’ve hit a little problem…

We desperately need PLASTERERS, TILERS & CONCRETERS.

And these aren’t massive jobs.

🔨 A plasterer to repair a few holes in gyprock or replace some cornice.

🧱 A tiler to glue a few tiles back on or lend a hand with a very small bathroom facelift.

👷 A concreter for a small concrete job that could make a huge difference to someone’s home.

Small jobs to a tradie. Massive jobs to someone who can’t afford to get them done.

Free Trade Day is Friday, November 6, and you decide how much you give. It might be two hours, half a day or the whole day.

We match you with someone on the Central Coast who genuinely needs a hand, and you simply turn up and do what tradies do best.

If you own a trade business in one of these three trades, we need you.

Register to volunteer here:
https://freetradeday.com.au/volunteer

And if you know someone who does, please tag them or send this post to them.

We’re getting very close now, and some of the stories behind these jobs are incredible.

Keep your eyes on us. November 6 is going to be something special. 🧡🖤

If you are a licensed trades person that has the skills to help improve the living situations of those in need then please fill out the contact form below.

03/10/2026

Another amazing job completed free of charge with material supplied by Express Timber Solutions and work done by the legends at Raz Built Constructions.

Less than 5 weeks to go until over 400 tradies work for people doing it tough on the Central Coast 🖤🧡

freetradeday.com.au

30/09/2026

25/09/2026

HOLY CRAP… Free Trade Day happened in Western Australia too?! 🧡

Yep. This photo is from Kalgoorlie, WA.

A long way from where Free Trade Day began on the Central Coast, but driven by exactly the same thing… good tradies giving their time to help people who genuinely need it.

And yep, she’s got legs.

Because hardship doesn’t stop at a state border. Neither does kindness.

We know there is a need for Free Trade Day right across Australia, and eventually we want communities everywhere to experience what can happen when local trades, businesses and volunteers decide to look after their own.

But first… Central Coast, the challenge is ours.

On November 6, we have an opportunity to show the rest of Australia just how high this bar can be set.

Hundreds of tradies. One community. One day.

And a whole lot of good. 🧡

Let’s show them what the Central Coast can do.

25/09/2026

Thanks Walker Bros Timber for giving back DIGNITY & HOPE to many residents of the Central Coast this Free Trade Day.

The tradies may be working FREE of charge on November 6th but without legends like Walker Bros, we wouldn't be able to fund the material. 🖤🧡

A huge THANK YOU to Walker Bros Timber & Building Supplies for getting behind Free Trade Day 2026. 🧡

There’s something pretty fitting about having a timber and building supplier support what we’re doing…

Because together, we’re building something bigger than houses. We’re building community.

On November 6, hundreds of local tradies will put down the invoice book and pick up the tools to help people across the Central Coast who genuinely need a hand.

And days like this simply don’t happen without local businesses like Walker Bros stepping up alongside them.

Their support helps us turn timber, materials and skilled hands into safer homes, brighter futures and some much-needed kindness for local families doing it tough.

So when you’re choosing where to support locally, please remember the businesses that support our community. 🙏

Thank you Walker Bros for helping us build a stronger, kinder Central Coast.

FREE TRADE DAY | NOVEMBER 6, 2026
THE BUSINESS OF KINDNESS 🧡

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