A Wagga charity that helps the homeless will permanently close its doors at the end of the week.
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Angels for the Forgotten, which has about 15 regular volunteers in Wagga, will also be ending its operations in Goulburn.
Wagga team leader Andria Howard said the Wagga hub would close on Friday, only 11 months after moving into its current Zeigler Avenue premises.
Ms Howard told The Daily Advertiser the charity had been experiencing some problems, but did not elaborate on the reason for the closure.
However, Ms Howard said the current premises were being sold.
Founder Melina Skidmore, who started Angels for the Forgotten in Wagga in 2010 and later moved to Goulburn, said on Tuesday that a press statement would be issued on the charity’s future and was expected to be released by the end of the week.
Ms Howard said the closure of Angels for the Forgotten would leave a gap in the services offered to vulnerable Wagga people, including the homeless and families in need.
“We have been making a difference,” she said.
"It has been great, being able to help people in a crisis, and we’ve had a lot of people coming in.”
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Ms Howard said people who had been helped by Angels for the Forgotten would now have to go to other organisations in the city.
“That’s going to put pressure on other services,” she said.
Ms Howard said the volunteer-based group had been “making a difference” for families in Wagga.
The Zeigler Avenue hub, which included a food bank and an op shop, was officially opened in November 2017, after a group of veterans pitched up and helped fit it out.
The charity had been operating out of a storage shed for two years before that.
At the November 2017 opening, Ms Skidmore described the work to get it up and running as “a long slog”.
“We got the building on September 1 and it’s taken our team of volunteers months to get the food bank side up and running. The vets have come in and done the op shop side in a week,” she said.