Warehouse Stationery customers have donated $65,564 to parents struggling to pay for their children's back to school costs – doubling the amount raised in the previous year.
For seven years, Warehouse Stationery has partnered with The Salvation Army to provide stationery and school supplies for families in dire material need as they prepare to send their children back to school.
In the three weeks before Christmas, customers of the company's 66 stores were invited add a dollar to their purchase to support the back-to-school appeal. Money raised is converted into gift cards that The Salvation Army distributes to client families to help pay for school supplies.
The Warehouse Stationery store with the most generous customers was Warkworth. Wairau Park on Auckland's North Shore, Hornby in Christchurch and Oamaru stores tied for second place, and Riccarton in Christchurch ranked third.