Ms Durant added: “Some people would literally be living on the streets, and if we weren’t open that’s where they’d stay for the week.”
She said the project also offered “a clothes bank, a toiletry bank and some good entertainment throughout the day”.
HARC was founded in 1989 by a group of local people who “couldn’t bear the thought of anyone spending Christmas cold, hungry, or alone”.
It said the annual Christmas effort had developed into a “lifeline, run entirely by volunteers and supported by the generosity of Sheffield residents”.