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Shelter’s accounts for the year to March 2018 show total income of £67.4m, and total expenditure of £66.4m. Compared to the previous year, income was up 11% and expenditure was up 6%: click here.
It got donations and legacies of £36.9 million, but spent £11.7 million on obtaining them.
It got £17.3 million for housing advice and support services from government departments and local authorities, and £2.8 million from the Big Lottery, making a total of £20.1 million.
This is analysed in a table on page 65 (digital page 33) of the annual accounts, under a humorous heading Housing Services:
More detail is given on pages 80/81 (digital page 41). Shelter got amounts totalling £1m from councils in each of the following cities: London, Sheffield and Birmingham.
However, Shelter spent £40.0 million providing ”housing” services. You have to work this figure out for yourself – the cost is split into 6 categories, but there is no sub-total. It’s almost as if they don’t want you to know.
Shelter shops sold goods for a total of £9.0 million, but the staff working in them cost £3.6 million, and “other shop costs” were £4.8 million. The net contribution was 532k, or 5.95% of sales – less than six pence in the pound from selling things that were given to them for nothing.
It got £1.2 million for training and publications which cost £0.9million. It also got £270k, from investments mainly, with a bit from office rental.
It spent £5.3 million on research, policy and campaigning.
To summarise where the money went:
Cost of collecting donations & legacies £11.7m
Cost of Shelter shops and their staff £8.4m
Training and publications £0.9m
Total £21.0m
“Housing” services £40.0m
Research, policy and campaigning £5.3m
Total overall expenditure £66.3m
NB The £21m cost of the first three items was spent on obtaining the £67.4m receipts. That is 31%.
Broadly speaking, the net donations and legacies of £25.2 million were spent as follows:
Half of the cost of so-called housing services £20m
Campaigning to drive private landlords out of the market and increase homelessness £5m
Housing anybody at all £0
Remuneration for the seven directors was £606,407, making an average of £86,630. In July 2017, the month before Neate and Beales joined Shelter, the Director of Finance resigned. His replacement resigned in February; her interim replacement resigned in April. In May a permanent Director of Finance was appointed, for the time being.
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Paul landlord
8:23 AM, 6th February 2019, About 5 years ago
I find it interesting that prs landlords are attacking the Alliance for attempting to do something to to mitigate the smashing of our business doled out by seemingly all quarters. Attempting to expose Shelter for what they are may indeed prove counterproductive (so far not) and treated as something to be ignored (quite possibly happening). But do the critics have other bright ideas? If so I would say join the Alliance, put your own ideas forward to the organisation and shape the direction of the Alliance action. If not maybe at least put some action forward on 118 we can move forward with. If not I would say stop being an armchair umpire criticising people who are trying to defend our business or back off. Put up or shut up please.
Annie Landlord
13:12 PM, 6th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 05/02/2019 - 22:02
It isn't my perception that Shelter has backed off at all. They are really pushing the 'End S21' campaign and 'Say No to No DSS' campaign for example. They produced their report on social housing a short while back, so their campaign has shifted to encompass that.
They talk to the three main landlord organisations. I don't imagine for one moment they concern themselves with individual landlords, or insignificant small groups. Their goal (as a left wing socialist organisation) is to massively increase the number of social homes, and to do that they have to continually criticise and denigrate private landlords. They are in for the long game.
Old Mrs Landlord
13:54 PM, 6th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Annie Landlord at 06/02/2019 - 13:12I fail to see why it is necessary to "continually criticise and denigrate private landlords" and the accommodation they provide, in order to promote the provision of social housing. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning.
Monty Bodkin
9:48 AM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Annie Landlord at 06/02/2019 - 13:12
They are really pushing the 'End S21' campaign
That is a Generation rent campaign, Shelter is noticeably absent from the list of supporters here;
https://www.generationrent.org/end_section_21
and 'Say No to No DSS' campaign
https://blog.shelter.org.uk/2018/08/ending-dss-discrimination/
"In the next few months Shelter intends to bring a series of test cases to court which challenge those who refuse to consider letting to people on benefits"
That was 6 months ago, as far as I know, they haven't brought one test case to court.
I'm not saying Shelter are pro-private landlord but I think they are canny enough to tread carefully in order to maintain financial funding from the likes of B&Q and Nationwide and a (supposedly) right wing capitalist government.
Annie Landlord
10:30 AM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 06/02/2019 - 13:54
I imagine their reasoning is the need to demonstrate that the PRS, which is now the 2nd biggest tenure, is failing renters, charging stupendous rents and is dominated by Rachmanesque criminals - so a massive increase in social housing is the only way to save the population from nasty money grabbing private landlords. They could have taken another route - to work proactively with the PRS to keep existing tenants in their homes and encourage decent landlords to invest in housing - but that would be showing support for private enterprise, which doesn't fit with their narrative
Old Mrs Landlord
13:01 PM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Annie Landlord at 07/02/2019 - 10:30Thank you for our explanation. You say this is what you imagine and I am wondering whether you have any evidence to support that, other than your imagination. Do you feel it is the only possible explanation or perhaps that it is self-evident?
Monty Bodkin
14:08 PM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 07/02/2019 - 13:01
Plenty of evidence;
https://england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/campaigns/a_vision_for_social_housing
We can see the impact of the housing crisis everywhere, from the increase in both young families and older people trapped in unaffordable privately rented homes, to the increasing homelessness that scars our society.
Unless we act now, we face a future in which a generation of young families will be trapped renting privately for their whole lives, where more and more people will grow old in private rentals, where billions more in welfare costs will be paid to private landlords – and hundreds of thousands more people will be forced into homelessness.
Our commission recommends a historic renewal of social housing, with a 20-year programme to deliver 3.1 million more social homes.
etc etc
Old Mrs Landlord
17:44 PM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 07/02/2019 - 14:08
I am not in ant doubt that Shelter denigrate private landlords. What I asked is why Annie says that it is necessary for them to do this in order for them to campaign for more social housing. I cannot see that slagging off the PRS is a prerequisite to pushing for more social housing provision.
Monty Bodkin
21:04 PM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 07/02/2019 - 17:44I asked why Annie says "that it is necessary for them to do this in order for them to campaign for more social housing. "
No, she didn't say that at all
-as a quick read through the thread clearly shows.
Mark Shine
21:07 PM, 7th February 2019, About 5 years ago
We know that slagging off the PRS is v easy and increasingly commonplace in recent years, but a question I’ve wondered ever since I heard Osborne’s 2015 summer budget announcement which I listened to while driving to/from an immediate service tenant repair request: do Shelter, Gen Rent, Guardian, HMG or the LL h8 brigade etc etc consider incorporated LLs to be private LLs / LL entities operating in the PRS or not?
If not, why not?