Shelter, the National Campaign for Homeless People Limited
Founded1 December 1966
FounderBruce Kenrick
TypeNot-for-profit
FocusHousing and homelessness
Location
  • London, UK
Area served
Great Britain
Revenue
£48,200,000
Websitewww.shelter.org.uk

Shelter is a registered charity that campaigns for tenant rights in Great Britain. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people and lobbies government and local authorities for new laws and policies. It works in partnership with Shelter Cymru in Wales and the Housing Rights Service in Northern Ireland. The charity was founded in 1966 and raised 48.2 million pounds in 2020/21.[1]

Shelter helps people in housing need by providing advice and practical assistance, and campaigns for better investment in housing and for laws and policies to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people.

History

Shelter was launched on 1 December 1966, evolving out of the work on behalf of homeless people then being carried on in Notting Hill in London. The launch of Shelter hugely benefited from the coincidental screening, in November 1966, of the BBC television play Cathy Come Home ten days before Shelter's launch. It was written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach – and highlighted the plight of the homeless in Britain.[2] Shelter was set up by the Rev Bruce Kenrick[3] after forming the Notting Hill Housing Trust in 1963.[4] The social campaigner Des Wilson, having seen Cathy Come Home, became pivotal in the development Shelter.[5]

In 2008, Shelter saw strike action by its staff in response to changes being made to their terms and conditions.[6] Another dispute, this time over pay, occurred in 2022 prompting a two-week strike[7]

The Shelter Headquarters in Old Street, London

Financial information

For the year ended March 2017 (England) [8]

  • Total incoming resources: £60,902,000
  • Total expenditure: £62,874,000
  • Fundraising costs: £18,852,000
  • Total cost of charitable activities: £44,022,000

Sources of funding

  • Donations and legacies 54%
  • Housing advice and support services 29%
  • Shelter shops 14%
  • Training and publications 2%
  • Other 1%

See also

References

  1. ↑ Shelter Annual Report 2020/21 (PDF). p. 15.
  2. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Cathy Come Home (1966)". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "The Rev Bruce Kenrick". 19 January 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Shelter Scotland - Our History". 28 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Cathy Come Home (1966)". screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  6. ↑ Patrick Butler (5 March 2008). "Shelter's hard choices will strike others". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  7. ↑ Jones, Rupert (5 December 2022). "Homelessness charity Shelter's staff start 'unprecedented' two-week strike". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Shelter, the National Campaign for Homeless People Limited Trustees' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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