Less than a week after the Tauranga Community Foodbank was forced to vacate its premises due to toxic black mould and asbestos, it has found a safe new home.
Staff and volunteers have been busy readying the new premises, located on Brook St behind Fraser Cove, which will officially be open to the public on Monday morning.
Chairman Alan Plunkett was rapt with the amount of support from the public who offered to help after the council vacated them from the Dive Cres building.
"There's been awesome co-operation from the public and from local firms," he said.
The new premises was twice the size of the previous building and he imagined it would take staff and volunteers "a bit of getting used to".