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Wayside Chapel cancels iconic Christmas street party as coronavirus restrictions impact NSW charity events
One of Sydney’s most iconic traditional Christmas gatherings at the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross has fallen victim to COVID-19 public health orders restricting numbers at events.
Key points:
- COVID regulations have forced charity festivities and fundraising to be cancelled or changed in 2020
- Christmas will be an anxious time for the disadvantaged, with more than 116,000 people expected to be homeless
- Wayside Chapel will hold one lunch per day for its own community members in the week before Christmas
The Wayside Chapel’s usual 10:00am service, lunch and street party — which attracts up to 1,000 of the city’s homeless and isolated people across the day, will not go ahead this year.
It is one of many charities having to either cancel or…
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