Havelock North resident Debbie Berlin drew her Fairview Place neighbours together to donate furniture, clothes, home ware and kitchen ware to Re-source on Wednesday.
The registered charity collects and redistributes household items to social workers, community workers, women, schools and more.
Charity founder Nadine Gaunt said seven houses on the street arranged to donate together on Wednesday morning, for transport to the charity's base in a donated van.
"We've been managing with a tiny trailer, which is borrowed and has a hole in it, but I rang around rental companies and Cross Country Rentals have loaned us a van for the whole week for free," she said.
"We filled it to the roof today – absolutely shoved the last thing in before heading to our site in Flaxmere. And we still had to make another trip."