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Like Shelter, we believe everyone should have a place they can call home. For more than two decades we’ve been working together to provide much needed support and during this time, our customers and colleagues have:
- donated more than £8 million
- helped more than 145,000 people facing a housing emergency
- supported Shelter’s helplines, for those facing homelessness
- worked together on policy and campaigns that make a difference to people in housing need.
Help a family into a home this Christmas
Laura and her two children faced eviction last Christmas. They were placed in unsuitable temporary accommodation not knowing where they would move to next. Find out how support and advice from Shelter meant they could find a new home and celebrate Christmas this year.
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My landlord informed me last year
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that he wanted to sell,
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so we got the eviction notice.
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The council, all they’d offered
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was an inappropriate accommodation.
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that wasn't fit for my autistic son,
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didn’t take any notice of anything
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people were saying.
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They were just very straight,
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you know,
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you're going to have to go into hostel.
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You're going to have to go into a B and B,
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and you're going to have to get rid of,
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we’ve got two dogs.
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So my councilor, who was with me,
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helping , me fight,
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said that I need to contact Shelter
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because they are brilliant,
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and I contacted them straight away.
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Lovely guy called Gerard.
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He dealt with all the legal side
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of helping me
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with the council,
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because I didn't understand
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any of the emails I got.
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It was like a hug, you see.
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Every time I could speak to him,
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he made me feel better that there was
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someone at the end of the phone
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that would understand.
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But once Gerard got in contact
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with the council,
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they found a three bedroom house
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as a permanent offer.
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We moved in within a day and
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the house is perfect.
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I’m loving that I’m making it a little home for us.
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Yeah, we're very, very grateful
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and pleased with the help we got.
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We were lucky,
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but there's so many people out there
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that don't get that chance,
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and with the support that Shelter could get,
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with donations,
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it would save a lot of lives.
Donate and make a difference
Unfortunately, Laura’s story isn’t unique. As rent and mortgage rates rise, wages do not. The rise in the cost of living affects more and more people, with families being made homeless with little or no options.
This Christmas, 145,000 children in the UK will be homeless. Donating to Shelter, no matter how big or small, could help a family into their own home this winter.
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