CATHEDRAL BANQUET M ore than 300 guests filled the glorious St Peter’s Cathedral on October 7 for the third annual AnglicareSA Cathedral Banquet. In the lead-up to the evening, more than 50 cathedral pews were removed to transform the venue into a majestic black tie gala event with guests being treated to the very best of South Australian food, premium wine and beverages. The night was opened by a Greeting to Spirit of Place performance by Karl Telfer and his daughters, and the Master of Ceremony was former professional cricketer Henry Olonga. There was plenty of entertainment and activities to keep guests entertained, with performances by comic sopranos DivaLicious, a silent auction of more than 50 items donated by generous sponsors, live auctions and a raffle. The highlight of the live auction was the purchase of eight packages to furnish eight houses for high risk single parent homeless families as part of AnglicareSA’s Turning Point Housing Pilot Project. Thanks to the tremendous generosity of the guests, the evening was extremely successful, raising more than $147,000. This money will go towards supporting AnglicareSA’s Emergency Assistance services, which include emergency food relief, financial assistance and counselling, housing advice, homelessness support, mental health services, children’s and youth services. Our Emergency Assistance services supported more than 7,000 households last financial year, which included almost 2,300 new customers and this number continues to rise. We would like to offer a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported the evening and for their ongoing support of the work we do with the community. Anglicare also sincerely appreciated the support of the Cathedral Banquet’s principal sponsor, Telstra.
page 6 — News about AnglicareSA, Summer 2016
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