WIN Resale Shop Westside is one of the retail storefronts operated by Women In Need Community Cooperative, known locally as WIN, a Victoria-based nonprofit that has served the Vic West neighbourhood from this exact Westside Village location since 2007. The shop sits at unit 220, 172 Wilson Street, directly across from the Starbucks in the Westside Village shopping centre, making it an easy stop for anyone already running errands in that stretch of Vic West, one of Victoria’s most rapidly redeveloping waterfront-adjacent neighbourhoods. The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 in the morning until 5:30 in the evening, and Sunday from noon until 4, giving both weekday commuters and weekend browsers a wide window to visit.
Inside, the Westside location stocks a genuinely broad resale mix: clothing for all ages and genders, shoes and fashion accessories, books, art, ornaments, toys, and general household goods, meaning a single visit might turn up anything from a children’s winter coat to a piece of framed art or a stack of hardcover novels. That breadth is part of what sets a WIN resale shop apart from a narrowly focused vintage boutique or a single-category consignment store: the inventory turns over constantly based on what the Vic West community itself donates, so the shop rewards repeat visits rather than a single one-time browse.
What makes WIN Resale Shop Westside distinct from a typical secondhand store, though, is where the proceeds go. Women In Need Community Cooperative describes its mission as supporting women, trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people through what it calls the journey between crisis, self sufficiency, and wellness, and the cooperative reports helping more than 2,869 individuals in the past year alone through its combined resale and support-services model. Revenue generated at the Westside till, together with donated goods processed through WIN’s donation centre on Ardersier Road and coordinated from its administrative office on Pandora Avenue, helps fund programs including new start packages for people leaving crisis situations, along with broader crisis referral and self-sufficiency support services. In practice, that means a customer buying a secondhand sweater or a used paperback at this Vic West storefront is directly funding the cooperative’s wraparound social services rather than a private resale business or a national retail chain.
For Vic West residents, the Westside store functions as a genuine neighbourhood fixture nearly two decades in the making, a place locals already associate with reliable, affordable secondhand shopping rather than a newcomer testing the market. For visitors to Victoria exploring the Selkirk waterway or the Vic West side of the Johnson Street Bridge, it offers a worthwhile detour for anyone hunting for budget clothing, books, or household items with a clear social mission attached. In short, WIN Resale Shop Westside is a longstanding, mission-driven secondhand store in Victoria’s Vic West neighbourhood, where affordable clothing, books, and household finds directly fund a local cooperative’s crisis and wellness support services for women, trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit individuals.
