This will be the reality for many this winter but your support can help to make a difference.

You can Help Someone Come in from the Cold in a number of ways:

• Businesses can invite a member of our team to speak to your staff about how they can make a difference.
• Hold an information and fundraising event at your local school, church or sporting club to raise awareness of those battling the cold in your local community.
• Have your friends and families get together to donate food, toiletries, bedding or any items from the list below.
• Make a Tax Deductable monetary donation and help us purchase the much needed items below.

How your support can make a difference:

$25 Hygiene Packs

Provide both male and female hygiene packs to homeless clients.  Included in these packs are items such as soap, shampoo, sanitary items, toothpaste and deodorant. These goods are essential for people who live on the streets.

$30 Singles Food Parcels

Provides singles who live in rooming houses, on the street or in parks with "ready to eat" food items which require minimal cooking, such as the addition of hot water or a short blast in the microwave.

$35 Bedding Packs

Provide people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with a pillow, pillow case, towel, blanket and set of sheets.  These aim to assist people who are in rooming houses or who are on the streets keep warm in the cold winter.

$45 Family Food Parcels

Family food packs to assist families for a two day period (3 meals per day), consisting of staples such as milk, Weetbix, pasta, pasta sauce, and healthy snacks.

$75 Youth Starter Packs

Provides vital resources required to sustain a tenancy and achieve personal growth.  Packs include cleaning products, toilet paper, tea towels, laundry powder, coat hangers, pegs, soap, towels, toiletries, food hampers, sanitary items, bedding, clothing, food vouchers and much more.

$100 Emergency Accommodation

Provides a motel room for one night for a homeless family.

$250 Bring a Young Person in from the cold

Providing accommodation, food and support for a young person.

$500 Rescuing Families from rooming houses

Provides support and advocacy to get families out of overcrowded rooming houses into safe and affordable long term accommodation.