Independently Owned, Locally Grown, Community Loved
Returning volunteers, Wendy van den Dolder and Colleen Dametto Photo credit: Victoria Velton
Ingham’s second-hand shopping scene has welcomed Salvos back into the community, with the Salvation Ingham Family Store recently opening its new location on Lannercost street.
The reopening brings the town’s number of second-hand stores back to three, restoring the number of local op shops in operation prior to the 2025 weather event that flooded Salvo’s previous premises on Herbert Street, before the building was demolished to make way for the Moduline factory.
For Manager Jean Barnett, finding a new home for the store has been a long time coming.
While the closure meant the Family Store was temporarily absent from the town’s op-shopping scene, plans to return were always in the background as the team searched for a suitable new premises. Now, Jean said they have found a perfect location.
“We love it. It’s beautiful,” she said.
The new store offers a wide variety of donated goods, including second-hand furniture, household items, clothing, toys, and bric-a-brac. The front section has a boutique-style clothing display, while further inside shoppers will find ladies’, men’s and children’s clothing, a $1 rack and a large bric-a-brac section leading through to furniture and manchester.
The variety has already been welcomed by locals, with Jean saying customers have been particularly happy to once again have somewhere to donate goods as well as another place to shop.
For a town still rebuilding and reshaping itself after the floods, the return of another community store adds another familiar service and shopping option to the local landscape.
Jean said the reception since opening has been overwhelmingly positive, with locals showing their support for the new premises and the team behind it. That team includes many of the volunteers who worked at the previous store, along with some new faces.
Jean put the volunteers first in her praise, saying they work hard behind the scenes to keep the store running.
“Without the volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” she said.
With donations continuing to come through the doors and volunteers happily returning to their roles, for Jean and the team, the new location represents a fresh start, but that same community spirit that has always been at the heart of the store remains.
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