Book in for DCM Bookfair this Saturday

Head to Shed 6, this Sat­urday 4 August, 8am-6pm,  for the DCM Book­fair  (the largest of its kind in Wel­ling­ton) sup­port­ing an amaz­ing cause – end­ing home­less­ness. Yes, go shop­ping for books and every cent you spend helps most mar­gin­al­ised people in our city. Book­fair is full of solu­tions to bore­dom at spec­tac­u­lar prices. Yes there […]

DCM Bookfair dates & donations

The day of  the 2017 DCM Book­fair is Set. Set aside time for book for­aging on Sat­urday August 5th from 8am till 8pm, at Shed 6 in Queens Wharf. Want to donate books to DCM’s Book­fair on 5 August? This week, is your last chance to donate books because there is a strong like­li­hood DCM may have […]

Books, Books & more Books

It’s only 3 days till DCM’s very delight­ful & very Large annu­al book­fair. Over 75,000 have been sor­ted and packed ready for sale start­ing 8am this Sat­urday at Shed 6, Queen’s Wharf. This year it’s a one day event run­ning for 12 hours from 8am till 8pm. At the book­fair you’ll find clas­sics, cook books, […]

Read Books, Save Lives – The Annual DCM Bookfair

Instead kick­ing off on all the amaz­ing books you’ll find at Book­fair this week­end. I thought you might like to know how cold it’s been in Wel­ling­ton, last night it was 2.7°C in Kel­burn overnight, with a light dust­ing of snow.  Snow is fun except when you don’t have a place to call home, to store your belong­ings, […]

World Homeless Day

Today is ‪‎World Home­less Day‬, when we often find ourselves ask­ing, what can I do to help those in my own city who are exper­i­en­cing home­less­ness? One prac­tic­al way you can help is by giv­ing or encour­aging people to give to DCM Wel­ling­ton – Each year DCM works with over 800 people in Wel­ling­ton. – […]

Curl up with a good Bookfair

It’s true i get excited by books, and every year i get excited by the Annu­al DCM Book­fair,  which lucky for my excite­ment meter (which dipped a bit post film fest­iv­al) is on this week­end. At The DCM Book­fair you’ll find over 90,000 books Books, Magazine, Com­ics, Graph­ic Nov­els,  jig­saw-puzzles, games, DVDs, CDs, Vinyl Records, Stamps .… […]

DCM Winter Foodbank Appeal

People often come to DCM because they have run out of money and can’t buy food. But that’s not the start or the fin­ish, when a per­son vis­its DCM for help they look at the under­ly­ing reas­ons that have brought them to the Food­bank. So instead of just being the net at the bot­tom of the cliff […]

One Sleep till Bookfair

Sat­urday  is  Wel­ling­ton’s most amaz­ing, most awe­some, most excel­lent, book related event of the year – The DCM Annu­al Book­fair Take 90000+ books, add LPs, CDs, DVDs, Cas­settes, Magazines, Jig­saw Puzzles & Games galore. Every­one going to book­fair has a strategy for this is one of those very few shop­ping events when you can­’t spend ‘too […]

10 days till DCM Bookfair

I’m offi­cially on DCM book­fair count­down, it’s only  10 days to go until the biggest, most amaz­ing book event of the year in Wel­ling­ton. Ima­gine any kind of book/game/puzzle, CD, DVD, LP  you love  and you’ll find it at Book­fair , Sat­urday & sunday  17 – 18 August 2013 at the  TSB Bank Arena. It’s […]

The cupboards are bare

here’s a sneak peek into the food bank shelves at DCM this after­noon – empty! As we know from Game ofThrones, winter is com­ing. So this week­end If you’re plan­ning to vis­it Chaf­fers New World, please buy a couple extra items and pop then in DCM’s  food­bank bins at the exit. Things like tuna and tinned stews are […]