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Adelaide’s leading charities can keep doors open with $30,000 raised to support South Australians in crisis

The Advertiser Foundation’s annual Blanket Appeal has wrapped up just as winter comes to a close.

Partnering with major charities like Hutt St Centre and Catherine House to support South Australians in financial crisis, the foundations helps raise funds to keep people experiencing homelessness fed and warm in winter.

Hutt St Centre chief executive Chris Burns said the Blanket Appeal had raised $30,000 in funds, allowing them to “keep their doors open to support people experiencing homelessness in the form of meals, showers, clothes” and “gets them off the trail of homelessness and on the pathway to homefulness”.

“I think it’s important to realise that homelessness doesn’t discriminate. Any one of us could be homeless tomorrow,” Mr Burns said.

“It could be us, it could be a family member, it could be a friend.

“This is for us as a whole community, and things like the Blanket Appeal are what sums up how the whole community is involved and supporting us.”

Catherine House manager Jaylee Cooper said the $30,000 raised had gone towards its crisis accommodation service.

“It will ensure that when a woman takes those very brave steps of walking through our doors for the first time, that she will have a safe place to stay that night, she will be supported and she’ll receive our holistic care which ensures that hopefully down the track, she will live the life that she deserves to live,” she said.

Ms Cooper added the community contribution meant a great deal to the women supported by Catherine House.

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