Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust

Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust To improve the health and well-being of the Highbury community and surrounding suburbs, by providing free food and clothing to whānau in the area.

We receive donations from the community, everything donated to us is given free and no questions asked. Kia ora whānau,

Te Whare Koha Highbury is a registered charity located at 42 Pembroke Street Highbury. We have been operating for 10 years. We are open Monday to Friday 9-12. We provide free food, clothing, toys, shoes, linen, kitchenware, furniture and more! We support all of Palmerston North

and surrounding suburbs. There are no questions or criteria asked. Anyone and everyone is welcome. We accept all donations in good condition, that isn't ripped or stained and still in working order, anything that may help families in need. We have a small community garden that is looked after by volunteers and the Manawatū Food Action Network. The gardens are freely accessible to everyone, and anyone can take from them. We collect food from other community groups around the Manawatū and some of the school lunch providers, the community is welcome to donate food. We accept all unopened food items that are still within their best before or after expired dates. We are always looking for new volunteers, sponsors, initiatives and ideas to help us help the community. If you would like to make a monetary donation to us this would be much appreciated our Bank details are:
Kiwibank
Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Charitable Trust
38-0917-0397383-00

Ngā mihi Nui
Te Whare Koha

Today we attended the Volunteer Central awards here in Palmerston North where two of our beautiful wahine were nominated...
05/06/2026

Today we attended the Volunteer Central awards here in Palmerston North where two of our beautiful wahine were nominated for awards for 2026 👏🏽👏🏽

Quite often places like ourselves rely heavily on the support of volunteers to remain operational.

The Love, time, energy, passion and dedication that these 2 individuals have been giving both Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust and Te Whare Aroha Op Shop is beyond words. As a whole team and community we thank not only these 2, but both teams at our Koha store and also our op shop. Without volunteers we would not be able to function.

A massive 58 volunteers were nominated this year in this region alone so well done to all.

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.
(With your food basket and my food basket, the people will thrive.)

This is a beautiful proverb about collaboration. It acknowledges that when everyone contributes what they have, the whole community flourishes.

See you all next week Mon-Fri 9-12 🥰 Mauri Ora!

With Matariki fast approaching, we thought we would run another colouring competition since our last easter one had so m...
04/06/2026

With Matariki fast approaching, we thought we would run another colouring competition since our last easter one had so much engagement from our hapori 🌟⭐️🌠🌌👏🏽

Print out yourself or pop in to Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust From Next Monday onwards during opening hours to pickup one, get the CHILDREN to colour it in and pop in back by the 8th of July.

Prizes to be won for our tamariki 🥰 It takes a village 👏🏽

03/06/2026

Sharing 🙏🏽💙 contact Butterfly Compassion Community - BCC if any of our followers can help

Mōrena 👋🏽Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust is open today (thursday) 9-12We have been welcoming a...
03/06/2026

Mōrena 👋🏽

Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust is open today (thursday) 9-12

We have been welcoming alot of new people through our doors these last few weeks.

Pop on in, have a shop, please leave our inside coathangers behind in the bins provided 🙏🏽
feel free to ask any questions if you need help
Please remember to be kind to our staff/volunteers. We also accept clean, rehomeable donations during opening hours
See you at 9am 🙂

Nga Mihi going out to Devin and the team at Awapuni Nurseries for the excess plants 🌱👏🏽We managed to rehome these all ou...
02/06/2026

Nga Mihi going out to Devin and the team at
Awapuni Nurseries for the excess plants 🌱👏🏽

We managed to rehome these all out to the community via our baskets / some awsome gardeners around town that pour their time and love into growing community gardens today 🤩🌱

Another huge Mihi going out toRapid Relief Team NZ for the koha last friday of baking, cold storage kai, with this kai t...
02/06/2026

Another huge Mihi going out to
Rapid Relief Team NZ for the koha last friday of baking, cold storage kai, with this kai the team were able to distribute out to

-x51 local whānau who came through our doors
-x25 Tamariki for an after school activity
-x50 Rangatahi for a kapa haka wānanga with the teams blessings

😋🍴👏🏽
Amazing treats for our hapori

Below pictured is one cool Lil man who received a special treat also on his birthday 🤩

Community helping community

This Friday we have the opportunity to attend the Volunteer Central awards to help celebrate all the hard mahi our volu...
01/06/2026

This Friday we have the opportunity to attend the Volunteer Central awards to help celebrate all the hard mahi our volunteers do for Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust

Nga Mihi for the understanding 🙏💙

Nga Mihi to the team at Rapid Relief Team NZ for dropping in to tautoko Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highb...
29/05/2026

Nga Mihi to the team at Rapid Relief Team NZ for dropping in to tautoko Te Whare Koha Highbury: Te Roopu Oranga O Highbury Trust and the community with some donations/ kai and winter gear 👏🏽

So appreciated, we have already started sharing them out to our community, pictured below with our manager is Corbin so thank you Corbin and to Jacob for the drop off 🙂🙏 and a special thanks to Sam for organizing such a rapid response !

You all do such vital mahi within our country 💙

Happy long weekend everyone, see you next tuesday 🫡


Just a reminder both locations are closed Monday coming due to public holiday, we will reopen next Tuesday, happy long w...
28/05/2026

Just a reminder both locations are closed Monday coming due to public holiday, we will reopen next Tuesday, happy long weekend 🙂🙏

Posting ahead of time so everyone is aware of our upcoming closure for public holiday 🙂✨️🙏This week coming it will be bu...
24/05/2026

Posting ahead of time so everyone is aware of our upcoming closure for public holiday 🙂✨️🙏

This week coming it will be business as usual
Mon-Fri 9-12 open and for donations, 42 pembroke street, Highbury, Palmerston North. Please leave our coat hangers inside behind and our display bins/baskets.

any donations required to be dropped off outside of these hours please facebook us or contact our number -0224023721 to pre arrange alternative drops.

Our op shop Te Whare Aroha Op Shop is business as usual this week too.

Nga Mihi to everyone for the on going tautoko.
See you all soon 💛

Address

42 Pembroke Street
Palmerston North
4412

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm
Thursday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

021405227 or 06 3578242

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