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Place your bids at a secret art sale 
27 November 2008
Take part in architect firm Levitt Bernstein’s secret art auction for Shelter, and you could land a valuable original artwork by a Turner Prize shortlisted artist… or you might just get an interesting new picture for your wall!
Original art up for grabs!
25 November 2008
Stuck for ideas for Christmas presents this year? Come down to our one-off art exhibition and bag an original framed print - an ideal gift for someone special.
Go fashionista for Shelter
25 November 2008
Remember our call for knitters to create scarves for Origin’s perfume bottles that are sold in aid of Shelter? Now the company is auctioning off six bottles with scarves created by top designers, and all the proceeds are going to our work.
Pre-budget report welcomed
24 November 2008
Shelter has welcomed the housing measures in the pre-budget report, but said Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has not gone far enough.
Repossessions up 12%
21 November 2008
New figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show that repossessions have risen 12% to 11,300 in the third quarter of the year from July to September.
M&S serves up Christmas!
21 November 2008
Terri Dwyer of ‘Sixty Minute Makeover’ fame is urging Marks & Spencer customers to buy a special Christmas food range and raise vital funds for our work with families in housing need.
NME tour tickets up for grabs!
21 November 2008
Shelter has been named as charity partner for the awesome NME Shockwaves Awards Tour, and we’ve got several pairs of tickets to give away!
Building industry 'collapsing'
20 November 2008
New figures released by the Government today show that the number of homes built over the last quarter has fallen dramatically.
One million shortfall of homes
19 November 2008
The Government faces a massive one million shortfall in building new homes, new research by Shelter shows.
2012 pledge welcomed
18 November 2008
Junior Housing Minister Iain Wright today announced a £200 million plan to eradicate street homelessness in time for the 2012 Olympics.
Nationwide's Christmas gifts
18 November 2008
Nationwide employees across the UK are running a secret santa scheme with a twist this Christmas, by filling shoeboxes full of gifts for homeless families.
Join a Shelter campaign group
07 November 2008
Do you live in an area where there is a shortage of affordable homes, where council house waiting lists are long, and where thousands of homeless households are trapped in temporary housing? Shelter is launching local campaign groups to help you do something about it.
'Pass on cut' Shelter urges
06 November 2008
Shelter has welcomed the interest rate cut of one and half per cent, and is challenging banks and mortgage lenders to pass the saving on to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners.
Eco-towns enter second phase
04 November 2008
Shelter has welcomed the beginning of the second round of public consultation on the proposed locations and standards for eco-towns.
Shelter win on mobile homes
03 November 2008
With Shelter’s help, residents of Haven Village in Brightlingsea, a caravan park near Colchester, have won a legal case allowing them to live permanently in their mobile homes.
