page_title: Shelter (charity)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Shelter (charity) / History
caption_attribution_description: Shelter 88 Old Street, London, EC1V 9HU. Photograph taken at night.
context_page_description: Shelter is a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people in need, and tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people. 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 60.9 million pounds in 2016/17.
  Shelter helps people in housing need by providing advice and practical assistance, and fights for better investment in housing and for laws and policies to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people.
context_section_description: 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. The film led to a public outcry and calls for action after its transmission. It was written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach – and highlighted the plight of the homeless in Britain. Shelter was set up by the Rev Bruce Kenrick after forming the Notting Hill Housing Trust in 1963. The social campaigner Des Wilson, having seen Cathy Come Home, became pivotal in the development Shelter.
  Unusually for a charity, in 2008 Shelter saw strike action by its staff in response to changes being made to their terms and conditions.
caption: The Shelter Headquarters in Old Street, London.
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