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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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Old Mrs Landlord
14:31 PM, 8th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Shine at 08/02/2019 - 13:03
I agree with that as well. Sorry for any misunderstandings, it seems I did not express myself clearly to start with if several people got the wrong end of the stick.
Mark Shine
21:31 PM, 8th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 08/02/2019 - 14:31
I didn’t get wrong end of stick, but last night after a few🍷 was almost certainly guilty of trying to change the subject back (sorry 🥴) to questioning the seemingly irrational & simplistic viewpoint of the govt & left wing media & ‘interest groups’ like hpc who btw also appear everywhere in online media (including reporting Larry’s twitter feed to ICO btw) relentlessly promoting their message that:
unincorporated LLs = v v bad,
incorporated LLs = good, regardless of leverage.
Old Mrs Landlord
0:01 AM, 9th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Mark Shine at 08/02/2019 - 21:31
Perhaps now the thread will get back on track and I shall bow out. I do not participate in Twitter, Facebook or similar forms of communication. I am a simple soul and do not go in for conspiracy theories, much less profess to understand the machinations of the political classes. I do, however like to keep an eye on HPC as it's sometimes good for a laugh albeit, as you say, irrational and simplistic (to which I would add blinkered and vicious).
Arnie Newington
10:06 AM, 9th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Vincent Company is setting up a homeless charity.
He probably doesn’t know there is already one receiving £20 million of government money.
The reason that he doesn’t know is because rather than help the homeless Shelter prefer to pay Champagne Socialist large salaries to slag off the PRS.
Mark Shine
21:02 PM, 9th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 09/02/2019 - 00:01Believe it or not... I don’t usually subscribe to conspiracy theories either OML, but like yourself I also do sometimes keep an eye on various provocateurs like the very vindictive and manipulative guys @ hpc (and their online activities elsewhere, which are not *that* hard to trace with a fair bit of googling). Partly for entertainment value if I’m being honest. Amongst all the hate, I accept there might be a few bright sparks there.
That said, it would be ok if some of the more militant and exceptionally egotistical individuals within that particular ‘interest group’ kept themselves to themselves and just spouted delusional nonsense on their own forum. But they don’t just do that.
RichDad
15:51 PM, 25th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Why doesn't Shelter put the same level of venom on substandard social housing, which don't have to reach anything like the same safety standards as PRS? If Shelter is concerned about H&S of tenants, then there are plenty of examples like this recent one locally (Labour visit to a council tower block in a Conservative LA): https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/shami-chakrabarti-visits-hatfield-1-5894557
How long would a private LL be excused for not fixing the only lift in a 13-storey building? It's been out of action since before Christmas, with its replacement scheduled for June 2019.
Darlington Landlord
17:42 PM, 25th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Anyone else having the problem that they click on latest comment and end up at a previous page? I've had this in a lot but not all articles in the last week or so and have no idea why
Luke P
17:46 PM, 25th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Darlington Landlord at 25/02/2019 - 17:42
Yeah, same problem here.
Neil Patterson
18:46 PM, 25th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Hi everyone,
Very sorry there was a wordpress update that has knocked out the system taking you directly to the comment. Our IT are working on a fix but unfortunately it is taking some development time and should be up and running soon.
Richard Mann
8:21 AM, 27th February 2019, About 5 years ago
Thank you for posting the latest trading figures for Shelter.
It appears to be an extremely large corporate identity with lots of strategies in place.
It is surprising that not a single penny is spent on some kind of hands on support for the homeless other than a phone line.
I have seen one of their large offices in the city, its refurbished to high standard, dominates its position on that road and has “credential”.
Many charities only contribute very little to their given cause. 1p in the pound maybe.
Check with the charities commission for confirmation.
Surprisingly £60+million can’t provide a single bed or a hot meal for someone in desperate need.
Travelling through London or any of our great cities for that matter you will see many people young and old sleeping in shop doorways or worst, hungry cold and depressed. They have little or no hope of breaking that viscous downward spiral.
Just 2% of their takings could provide overnight accommodation for many of these destitute souls.
Somewhere to wash shower and restore some dignity into their lives. Stop for just one moment and imagine yourself in that same position, no money or income no bed not even a toothbrush a tampon or razor blade to your name.
Now imagine your in charge of a charity. Do you spend your time beating up LLs Lobbying self serving politicians or do you actively look to help and uplift the lives of the fallen victims of system?
I stopped at a petrol station it was a very frosty day, I defrosted my car, it was cold. There was an old man huddled under a blanket on the ground next to the main building of the petrol station.
I stepped out of my warm car to enter the building and pay my bill I thought to myself jeez it’s cold.
This old man had been out there all night I suppose.
When I came back out I gave him £10 quid. He said to me “thanks so much mate, now I can get a bed for the night”.
I guess he knew of a Hostel or something somewhere where it was possible for a tenner per night to get a shower eat something and sleep in a bed.
I did think goodness I would love to help more if I could but the realities are that as business people supplying accommodation it simply cannot work and function.
But ! If I had £60 million coming in I would certainly try to help a few of them.