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UK homeless families need your support.

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Every 15 minutes a family becomes homeless.

Will you answer their call for help? *

Choose your own amount

or choose one of the following amounts


£15 £25 £50

*It costs £1.06 per minute to answer a call to the Helpline – this covers the full costs including rent, utilities and staff.

Without Shelter, neither myself or my daughter would be here today.”

Rachel’s mum

 

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