It gives advice, information, and advocacy to people and campaigns, and lobbies government and local authorities for new laws and policies.

It works in partnership with Shelter Cymru in Wales and the Housing Rights Service in Northern Ireland.

[1] Shelter was launched on 1 December 1966, evolving out of the work on behalf of homeless people then being carried on in Notting Hill in London.

[2] Shelter was set up by the Rev Bruce Kenrick[3] after forming the Notting Hill Housing Trust in 1963.

[7] Another dispute, this time over pay, occurred in 2022 prompting a two-week strike[8] For the year ended March 2017 (England) [9] An annual charity fundraising event called Vertical Rush takes place inside London's Tower 42.