Colourfast in Koromiko St agreed to do the powder coating for free.
The EasyGate team had planned to have their Christmas do in Rotorua yesterday but postponed it to instead spend the afternoon installing the new gates at the Cameron Rd op shop and centre.
The charity's area manager, Lorna Edlin, said they were blown away by the gift.
It was not the only nice thing to come from the meanspirited theft.
The Legacy Trust donated $1000 to the charity. Trustee Greg Brownless, Tauranga's mayor, said he knew the work it did in the community and the trust was "happy to help them out".
And security company Nu Tech agreed to throw a free extra security camera into an upgrade the charity was already doing.
"It's the most amazing thing ever," Edlin said.
Baffling gate theft
- Gates vanish overnight on Monday
- Theft believed to have happened between 11pm and 12am
- One gate 1m wide, the other 3m
- Police investigating, no arrests yet