In July, the Shelter Scotland Campaigns and Policy team took our big red house to the streets of Leith, Edinburgh. This marked the final instalment in the first round of campaign days to...
Author: Jessica Husbands
The uncomfortable truth: unaffordable housing is pushing an extra 50,000 children into poverty
Today, 1 million people are in poverty in Scotland, including 230,000 children. Last Thursday, the Scottish Government released the most recent poverty and inequality statistics, which...
Why your support matters
How many charity emails do you receive every month? If you’re anything like me, it’s… quite a few. They’re causes I have signed up to because I care passionately about them, and have...
Think homelessness is just an urban issue? Think again.
Living in a big city like Edinburgh or Glasgow, it’s pretty impossible to be unaware of homelessness. Sadly, many of us are used to seeing people rough sleeping, and have noticed the rise...