Shelter’s Walk for Home is a 5k or 10k walk around the capital, taking in some of it’s most iconic landmarks
This Christmas, Culture Calling is proud to support Shelter UK, the housing and homelessness charity - and you can help too!
Sign up to join the movement taking part in a sponsored walk around London on December 3rd - either 5k or 10k - taking in some of the capital’s most iconic landmarks. If you're not in London, but would like to take part, you can organise your own sponsored walk somewhere local to you.
Registration costs £10, and everyone is encouraged to raise around £80 in sponsorship from friends and family, with all money raised going to support the work that Shelter does - sign up for Walk for Home to help out.
Shelter strives to help the homeless and, ultimately, to eradicate homelessness; they offer legal aid to people affected to homelessness and campaign on their behalf to government, local authority and various other bodies to advocate for legal protections for the homeless. As a first port of call Shelter also offers advice, support and guidance through their web chat, their national helpline, and through face-to-face advice and support.
This year Shelter is particularly focusing its efforts on helping children in temporary accommodation:
“In England 150,000 children are living in temporary accommodation. People can live for years and years in grotty bedsits, B&Bs…overcrowded, noisy, damp and poor living conditions…
How do you provide for your family the great abundant dinner when there are other families living in that building with you? There may be substance abuse going on or domestic violence situations - all things that you would never want your children to see - and you're all in one room, on top of each other, trying your hardest to celebrate and make things nice.
It’s terrible at any time of the year but at Christmas, when it’s cold and it’s dark and everyone around you is having the loveliest of times, it can be a really lonely and depressing place…
We exist to defend the right to a safe home for everyone.”