It’s Volunteers’ Week 2025 and as part of that, we’re celebrating some of our fantastic Shelter Scotland volunteers. They selflessly give their time, expertise and experience to...
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Volunteers’ Week 2025 – Meet Penny
At Shelter Scotland, volunteers represent a substantial part of our charity, and they are fully integrated into all aspects of what we do. Volunteering, it could be said, is part of our...
Systemic Racism and Scotland’s housing emergency
In September 2024 the Scottish Government’s homelessness statistics release showed a grim picture for housing in Scotland with record numbers of children in temporary accommodation and...
I’ve been in temporary accommodation for five years next March. There was no other choice – Zoe’s story
Zoe Ross, 43, and her five children have been trapped in temporary accommodation in the north of Edinburgh for five years. She admitted to Shelter Scotland that as each year goes by, she is...
