SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE LIMITED

Registered charity 263710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHELTER, SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE HOMELESS LIMITED

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing and homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to use for help.We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Shelter ran an operating deficit of £2.9m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves falling to £7.7m. The trustees have directed management to rebuild reserves to £12.5m by the close of the year ended 31 March 2028. The going concern basis is supported by projected liquidity improvements and available mitigation actions.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Trustpilot: Shelter scores 1.7/5 from 28 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 44.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jane Taylor
• Arshmeena Durrani · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris John Pitt
• Dr Louisa Monique Baxter
• Helen MacNamara CB
• James Strang
• John Ross McQuade
• Karen Belinda Kneller
• Leonie Victoria Foster
• Myfanwy Barrett CB
• SallyAnn Simmons Kelly OBE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHELTER FROM THE STORM.

• SHELTER FROM THE STORM income £484k
• WELSH HOUSING AID LIMITED income £5.1m
• SHELTERBOX TRUST income £18.0m
• SHAP LTD income £4.4m
• THE BUS SHELTER MK income £383k
• SHILOH (ROTHERHAM) income £216k

Side by side with its peers

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