This weekend was a great weekend for finding pre-loved treasures, as there were two opshops hosted by churches in Nelson! The first was a two-day pop-up op shop, fundraising for the upcoming Fiji ministry encounter, dreamt up by Ethan Rutherford of All Saints and his mum Lynley Rutherford. The second was the next installment in a series of car boot sales held at St Stephen’s and organised by Cathy Simmons and her team.
I asked both Ethan and Cathy some questions around their events.
What was the inspiration behind doing the opshop?
“We wanted something a bit different for fund-raising, so Mum came up with the idea of getting donations of clothing and then I added to the idea by saying that we could take some of the leftover clothing to Fiji to give away.”
What was your impression of the event?
“It was slow going the first day but we picked up a little bit on the second day. Overall it was quite a good time.”
How did you see community contributing to this event?
“We had donations from all over Nelson, as far as an old op shop in Murchison, a lady in Tapawera and some contributions from Takaka - so it was great to see the community coming together to donate and help us make this event happen because without the clothes this wouldn’t exist.”
What was the inspiration behind the car boot sale?
“We started off with Coffee, Clothes and Convos” and we decided to try a car boot sale to see if we could raise some funds for the church but more importantly it means getting people in from the community experiencing what it’s like to be in a church without any pressure.”
What was your impression of the event?
“They’ve gone well, we have raised significant amounts of money which shows that people are interested in coming in and shows there is interest and need in the community and we’ve had great conversations with people and repeat customers”
How did you see community contributing to this event?
“Community came along - we had external vendors from outside of the church come along and because we have the traffic island in the middle of the road, Ed Duggan and I take turns holding up signs and getting people in, I noticed people pulling over because of the sign - the community does contribute and engages largely with the event.”
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This weekend was a great weekend for finding pre-loved treasures, as there were two opshops hosted by churches in Nelson! The first was a two-day pop-up op shop, fundraising for the upcoming Fiji ministry encounter, dreamt up by Ethan Rutherford of All Saints and his mum Lynley Rutherford. The second was the next installment in a series of car boot sales held at St Stephen’s and organised by Cathy Simmons and her team.
I asked both Ethan and Cathy some questions around their events.
What was the inspiration behind doing the opshop?
“We wanted something a bit different for fund-raising, so Mum came up with the idea of getting donations of clothing and then I added to the idea by saying that we could take some of the leftover clothing to Fiji to give away.”
What was your impression of the event?
“It was slow going the first day but we picked up a little bit on the second day. Overall it was quite a good time.”
How did you see community contributing to this event?
“We had donations from all over Nelson, as far as an old op shop in Murchison, a lady in Tapawera and some contributions from Takaka - so it was great to see the community coming together to donate and help us make this event happen because without the clothes this wouldn’t exist.”
What was the inspiration behind the car boot sale?
“We started off with Coffee, Clothes and Convos” and we decided to try a car boot sale to see if we could raise some funds for the church but more importantly it means getting people in from the community experiencing what it’s like to be in a church without any pressure.”
What was your impression of the event?
“They’ve gone well, we have raised significant amounts of money which shows that people are interested in coming in and shows there is interest and need in the community and we’ve had great conversations with people and repeat customers”
How did you see community contributing to this event?
“Community came along - we had external vendors from outside of the church come along and because we have the traffic island in the middle of the road, Ed Duggan and I take turns holding up signs and getting people in, I noticed people pulling over because of the sign - the community does contribute and engages largely with the event.”
Check out other articles in the
series below.
More articles in the
series are to come.
