THIS YEAR'S AMCN Winter Jacket Drive for the homeless is set to be the most successful, with Shannons Insurance joining Australian Motorcycle News and Mission Australia to make it a truly national event.
Thanks to Shannons’ generous support, as of today every Shannons office around Australia is a jacket drop-off point. Or you can drop jackets off to Shannons representatives at events around Australia during the campaign period.
With Shannons on-board, the collection phase of the 2015 AMCN Winter Jacket Drive is now officially underway and will run until Tuesday, 14 July. This year’s distribution phase will be launched by Mission Australia at the annual Sydney’s Homeless Connect on Tuesday, 21 July, where Dan Strickland and the team from Missionbeat will swing into action.
AMCN is collecting motorcycle jackets and gloves only, so we ask that items of clothing other than motorcycle jackets and gloves be donated to a charity via an appropriate clothing bin. Please refrain from depositing standard items of clothing, no matter how warm they look, into the Shannons collection bins.
Shannons branch locations:
Queensland
5B 305 Montague Road, West End, 4101
South Australia
863-865 South Road, Clarence Gardens, 5039
Victoria
321 Warrigal Road, Cheltenham, 3192
New South Wales
65 Reserve Road, St Leonards, 2065
Western Australia
152 Burswood Road, Burswood, 6100
ACT
Unit 20, 2 Yallourn Street, Fyshwick, 2609
Tasmania
337-341 Arygle Street, North Hobart, 7000
Northern Territory
Hidden Valley Motor Sports Park, Hidden Valley Road, Berrimah, 0828
Can’t get to a Shannons branch?
Mail your jacket directly to:
Mission Australia
PO Box 211, Goulburn, NSW, 2580
Or drop it into:
Gassit HQ
73 Atherton Road, Oakleigh, Victoria
Motorcycle jackets are best
As all motorcyclists know, a jacket offers the perfect combination of protection, warmth and waterproofness to make riding during the winter months bearable. Those same qualities are also highly desirable for anyone roughing it on our streets. Possessing an item of clothing which will keep you warm and dry, while softening whatever hard surface you will be sleeping on, gives a homeless person one less thing to worry about as the temperature plummets each winter’s afternoon.
Once replaced by a newer version, older jackets often suffer the indignity of living out their days stuffed into a cardboard box and pushed to the back of a garage. These jackets could be enjoying a second life keeping someone less fortunate warm.
