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TOP FUNDRAISER: Jennifer Brasting tidies up her stall outside Arthur's Emporium. Each year the stall raises around $25 000 for our SPCA.

Helping support our animals

It's amazing to think that the donated items sold outside Arthur's Emporium on Clyde Street in downtown Whangarei raise around $25 000 a year for our SPCA.


Jennifer Brasting is co-owner of Arthur's and for over for past 16 years she has been collecting household items, books and magazines to sell outside the shop as an ongoing fundraiser for our centre.

The garage sale style stall is a lot of work for Jen as items need to be sourced, often cleaned and then priced before being displayed.

"Friends, customers and relations know I collect for the SPCA and they bring me all sorts of things which I can put out to sell," Jen says. "Magazines are very good sellers - people like the crosswords - but the biggest sellers by far are the Mills and Boons books. I guess they're a good, light read for just 50cents!"

Jen is a life member of our SPCA and says she runs the stall as her way of contributing to the centre. "I can't go down there to volunteer, it's too hard, I want to bring all the animals home," she says. "But what I can do is help raise money for them."

Our centre manager Francine Shields says Jen does a wonderful job. "What she does goes a long way to helping us care for animals and we are eternally grateful to her."