First safety-pin a copy of the Angel Blanket Note to your completed Angel Blanket - and mark very clearly that it is a gift and not for sale.

    Distributing Angel Blankets is entirely up to you.  Because there are so many homeless people in every country in the world, and there is so much need for the blankets, you have many choices.

• Most charity organisations eg Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul are grateful to receive them.  Just remember to mark them clearly as not to be sold, but to be given as gifts to those in genuine need.
• Or you may like to locate a particular person within a charity organisation, or who works directly with homeless people, who would be happy to carry out the placement of the blankets for you.
• Another outlet is through any soup kitchen that operates in the area.  The people who operate these are often in a very good position, and very skilled, at identifying people in real need.
• Or you may like to locate someone who has been homeless, but whose circumstances have now changed, to ask them where they believe you blankets would be most useful.
• Or if you stay alert, you yourself will start to identify people in need that you see when you are shopping, or that you pass on the street eg bag people, sea gulls (people picking up left over food on tables at shopping centre open food eating areas), etc.

    If you do a little research on homeless people in your area it will not be hard to see where your blanket/s would be of most use. 

    Having put so much time and effort in to making an Angel Blanket, please take the time to place it where it will be of the most value.  Remember, one blanket can actually save the life of a homeless person.

    Alternatively, you may know or hear of someone who has a very cold home and suffers very badly from the cold.  Whilst Angel Blankets are quite rustic in design and meant for homeless people, some blankets, when finished, look near to perfect with the only thing showing that they are not new is the Angel design sewn on them.  Who you give your blanket to is completely up to you.  If you have used your own linen, and you really like the result, and you will use it, then treasure it and keep it for yourself.  If someone else has given you any part of the blanket, and you sew the angel design on, then the finished blanket should be passed on.

    My own distribution intent is to first start in Toowoomba where I live, and try to identify areas that are not covered by conventional means.  When people first become homeless they often feel ashamed of their circumstances, or are too proud to ask for help, or they are too numbed by the circumstances they find themselves in to be able to cope with the cold in a practical manner.  These are the people I myself would like to give priority to.  However, I recognise that I do not yet have the skills, knowledge or judgement to identify who amongst these people are truly in need, and who will value and look after my gift - but I am working on it.