Our strategy

Our vision

Shelter believes that everybody needs a home in a place they can thrive. Our work won’t stop until there is a home for everyone.

Our aims 2009-2012

Shelter Scotland's three year strategy has been developed to:

• reflect the new political, institutional and funding realities in Scotland
• set out how we respond to the unique housing challenges we face
• propose a new working relationship with wider organisations
• complement and relate to the wider Shelter strategy.

There are two main aims for our work from 2009-2012:

• Make sure that people in housing need can access and keep a home.
• Drive up the supply of affordable homes in places where people can thrive.

And four additional aims:

• Diversify our income sources and explore innovative models, such as social enterprise, to direct investment to tackling bad housing and homelessness in the UK.
• Get the most from our income by making our structures and processes as efficient as possible.
• Work in partnership with other local and national agencies and bodies.
• Review our relationship with Shelter England and the governance of Shelter
  Scotland to enable us to reflect the political and institutional realities of Scotland.
  

Read the strategy document in full.

Our values

We're approachable

Shelter is a lifeline for anyone who is homeless or suffering in bad housing. If you’re faced with losing your home, we’ll do everything we can to help you keep a secure roof over your head.

We challenge

Home is a basic human need. In our affluent nation, everyone should have a home, and Shelter is challenging the people in power to make that vision a reality, through tenacious lobbying, persuasive research and policy reports, and high-profile public campaigns.

We're enterprising

Shelter strives to get the most out of every penny it spends. We’re proud to join forces with like-minded organisations, to share our ideas, and develop creative ways of tackling housing need.