ST Vincent de Paul has called on the Goulburn community to donate winter goods in the aftermath of Monday night's fire.
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The Society's CEO, Paul Trezise, said this was the number one priority with the destruction of the retail outlet.
The organisation lost tonnes of donated clothing and goods in the blaze. A second St Vincent de Paul office at 25-31 Verner St will accept and store donations from today onwards. Goulburn MP Pru Goward's office will also act as a drop-off point.
"The stock looks very badly damaged in terms of smoke and water damage and I don't think there is much we will be able to recover from that unfortunately," Mr Trezise told the Post yesterday afternoon.
"As for the building itself, we haven't been allowed to go inside because it's unsafe, but we understand there is serious structural damage."
Some 40 people volunteer at the Goulburn St Vincent's between the retail store and conference centre.
Mr Trezise said he would meet with property owner Rob Rampton as to a timeline of restoration and options for the retail operations.
"It will take a few days for the situation to become clearer with the building, so we will be in discussion with the owner of the building as to what we can do.
"Of more concern to us is that the shop provides a very important resource for our local volunteer conference group," he said.
"They issue gift cards to people and those people go in and get anything they might need - warm winter clothing, blankets and bedding materials.
"What we are seeing as a priority is that we are able to restock on those sorts of goods and store them at our Verner St facility...
"We would greatly appreciate donations of blankets and good quality winter clothing to give to people when they call on us for assistance. At the moment we aren't able to offer anything due to the fire."
Mr Trezise said the volunteer group did not have access to the upstairs area of the building, where the fire is alleged to have begun.
Mr Rampton said the space was vacant.