Volunteers started cooking, setting tables and cleaning early on Tuesday morning to prepare for the influx of service users.

Sister Marjorie McLochlan, who opened the soup kitchen more than 15 years ago, was busy in the kitchen but had a few minutes to thank the Masons.

"The Masons have been absolutely lovely and we are very pleased to be reopening in this new location," she said.

Volunteers expected anywhere from 140-200 people to flood through the doors, and hoped more would come as the news spread.

"It is a little smaller than our old kitchen, the oven is smaller but we'll see how we go.

"There is a barbecue we've been using down stair sand a nice big area down there that we can use," she said.

Sister Marjorie's Soup Kitchen is run solely by volunteers, around four men in the kitchen and seven ladies on the floor.

Soup kitchen volunteer, June Crook, thanked the Masonic Lodge and Sister Marjorie for their joint effort in re homing the service, and added without the two Port Macquarie's soup kitchen would be non-existent.

"The poor and homeless people of Port Macquarie will be very happy to hear we are reopening," she said.

"We went to so many venues around Port Macquarie and were having no lucky what-so-ever until I was talking to my son who has ties to the Masons," she said.

Mrs Crook said the Masonic Lodge, and in particular Robert, came to the rescue and agreed to be the new venue.