Scottish Government’s announcement last Thursday was a very welcome one. A £5 million “recovery and rehabilitation fund” to provide additional residential rehabilitation capacity and to...
Category: Stories
This isn’t just a job for me: My commitment to ending homelessness
I approached Shelter Scotland during COVID-19 lockdown back in April 2020. I had approached numerous organisations and noticed that many of these felt like job interviews, wanting to know...
Working together to tell individual stories of homelessness
Shelter Scotland partnered with photographer Margaret Mitchell to work with people with lived experience of homelessness through our Time for Change group in Edinburgh. We share our methods...
Discrimination in Housing – ‘No DSS’
Foreword by Chris Ryan, Strategic Litigation Solicitor, Shelter ScotlandIn May 2018, Shelter Scotland hosted Scotland’s Equality Law and Housing Conference to develop an understanding of...
Co-production in action: How our group in Dundee successfully pushed for change in their city.
In Co-production week 2020, Lisa, our Senior Development worker in Dundee talks about how a group came together to push for changes to the city’s hostels and achieved something...