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Charity Spotlight: Shelter

by Richard Howlett

• Published 24/02/2022

Here on the funeral-notices.co.uk blog we want to help shine a light on charities up and down the country that do incredible work to help people in all aspects of life. Those charities might be raising millions of pounds every year, or they might be raising just a couple of hundred, but regardless of what the amount is, it’s the love and care shown for those around them that is what really makes the difference.

Today we’re going to take a look at the charity Shelter, find out who they are, and see what it is they do.

Shelter, The National Campaign for Homeless People

A home is a fundamental human need and a basic moral right, as vital as education or healthcare.

Shelter is a charity whose main aim is combatting homelessness here in Great Britain. Shelter’s key focus is that every human being living in Britain today has a fundamental right to a home. A home is our foundation, it is the place where we grow, learn and thrive, and Shelter exist to defend and help provide this foundation for everyone. But they don’t just stop at putting a roof over a person's head and think that is good enough, instead they aim to ensure that all of the homes are safe, secure and affordable.

Homelessness is now a national emergency, and Shelter’s strategy to defend the right to a safe home is both ambitious and fearless in its scope and application. The goals they have laid out for the next few years are as follows:

Rights for renters and an end to discrimination

Building more social housing

Supporting the people who are struggling

You can read more about these goals and how they hope to achieve them here: Shelter - Our Strategy

How can you help?

At Shelter, home means everything

This national emergency cannot be stopped by Shelter alone, it requires an army of people to make this a national movement. Shelter aims to partner with any individuals or organisations who will help to amplify the cause and their voice.

You can help achieve this through a number of ways, be that by sharing your own experiences of bad housing experiences, buying or donating goods at one of Shelter’s charity stores located across the UK, or through attending or organising a fundraising event.

Another way to raise money which is very close to our hearts here at funeral-notices.co.uk, is through donations left in memory of a loved one. It is common practice now when someone passes to ask friends and family for donations in their memory, and if you make it known that you would like donations in your memory to be given to a charity like Shelter, then your friends, family and funeral director will ensure that happens.

An incredibly touching example of this can be found on the notice for Paul Milsom. Here the friends and family of Paul have raised over £1,000 for Shelter in his name, and that money then creates a legacy that will live on through the people it helps.

Home is everything.

Join Shelter in ending the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and our communities.