Hyde Park Road in the north end of London, Ontario is home to Mission Thrift Store’s London North location at 2020 Hyde Park Road, a store that has served the Hyde Park and northwest London community since 2013. The store carries the full range typical of the chain: donated clothing, shoes, furniture, housewares, books, toys, electronics and seasonal items, priced at a fraction of retail because the entire inventory arrives through community donations rather than wholesale purchasing, and turns over quickly enough that regular visits tend to turn up something new.
The store is open to shoppers Monday through Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. for evening shoppers, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; the location is closed Sundays. Donations are accepted on a broader schedule, Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., giving Hyde Park area residents a wide window to drop off bags and boxes even on days the sales floor keeps shorter hours. Store manager Marco leads one of the larger volunteer teams in the entire Mission Thrift network at this location, with 151 volunteers supporting daily sorting, pricing and customer service.
That volunteer base translates directly into scale. In 2024, the London North store processed 352,688 individual donated items and diverted more than 154 tonnes of product from landfill, figures that place it among the highest volume stores in the chain’s Ontario footprint and reflect both the size of the London market and the depth of community support the location has built since opening in 2013. For a city the size of London, having a single thrift store move over a third of a million items through its doors in one year is a meaningful measure of how much reuse is happening quietly on Hyde Park Road.
Mission Thrift Store operates as a faith-based non-profit thrift retailer, built on a joint ministry partnership with Bible League Canada and governed alongside the registered charity BFM Foundation Canada. Net proceeds from sales and donations at the London North location support ministry work in more than fifty countries as well as more than five hundred local causes across Canada, from food banks to women’s shelters. The organization’s history dates to 1989, when two Canadian businessmen returning from a Bible League Canada missions trip to India opened the first Bibles For Missions Thrift Store in Chilliwack, British Columbia; the brand became Mission Thrift Store in 2017 as the network grew to more than fifty Canadian locations, with London eventually hosting both a north and a south location as the city’s demand for affordable secondhand goods grew.
For northwest London and Hyde Park area shoppers, Mission Thrift Store offers a dependable rotation of low priced secondhand goods backed by one of the network’s largest local volunteer teams. Mission Thrift Store London North is, in short, a high volume, volunteer powered thrift shop on Hyde Park Road that turned more than 350,000 donated items into affordable finds and measurable community impact in a single recent year.
