Harbour Side Market

Community

Harbourside Market has major programmes underway that involve the Wellington community. These programmes include:

• Market Car Parking Fundraiser
• The Food Partnership Programme (FPP)

Market Car Parking

Car parking update

Thank you for your interest in the Harbourside Market Car Park Community Fundraising Programme. 

We have this popular fundraiser now back up and running after a period of not being able to.
For all community groups interested in participating when we get back to a normal market layout etc please contact fraser.ebbett@wcc.govt.nz

 Best of luck with your fundraising!

Food Partnership Programme

This is a partnership programme between KAIBOSH FOOD RESCUE and the market stallholders. Kaibosh is New Zealand’s first food rescue charity and acts as the link between retailers with surplus food and the charities who need it most by rescuing food that is good enough to eat, but possibly not good enough to sell. Since 2008 they have rescued over 2.5 million kg of quality surplus food and redistributed it to over 120 charities in the Greater Wellington region, providing the equivalent of over 7 million meals worth of food! The Harbourside Market Food Partnership Programme Stallholders provide KAIBOSH with unsold, fresh produce from the market on a weekly basis to be sorted and distributed to charities for collection. Since we started working with KAIBOSH we’ve donated over 230,000kg which has been passed on to community groups supporting people doing it tough.
This is the equivalent of over 657,000 meals and a carbon emission reduction total of 68,700kg
This programme is a great example of how the Wellington City Council is working to support the less fortunate in their community.

Other Community Initiatives

The Market Office is interested in involving the community in as many ways as we can with the market so if you have any ideas on how we can bring the market closer to the community, please let us know.