The organisation that can achieve our aims by 2025 looks radically different from Shelter in 2019, and our internal shift is only just beginning. We have recognised that, in setting the vision for Shelter itself, we must learn the hard lessons of the last three years. Our ambition for change in the country has sharpened but not altered. We must never forget that the climate emergency threatens to undo all we achieve in the struggle for social justice unless we hold it constantly in mind. We must listen to and trust each other in the way we have been learning to do on our journey towards active anti-racism, becoming a charity that puts equity and inclusion at the centre of all our activities. That requires us to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves about when we are true to our values and the priorities we have set and when we are not.
In order to put this plan into action, we need a disciplined focus on what matters most. Locally and nationally, we need individuals and organisations to join us and we hope that this strategic plan is as much a call to action as a manifesto. And we are even more acutely aware than we were in 2019 that the local communities where we work face immediate and deeply damaging challenges that we must address alongside them. We still know that there is no way we can achieve that goal alone. Put simply, we still know that the only answer to the national emergency the housing crisis has become is sustained investment in high quality, secure homes that people on low incomes can afford to rent. We have learned much along the way about our strengths and weaknesses as a team, as an organisation and as a player in partnerships both nationally and locally. The extraordinary loyalty, commitment and generosity of our supporters have meant that we’ve emerged fighting-fit from the pandemic. Luckily the past three years have seen notable successes for Shelter. However, in the context of greater inequality, hardship, fear, social division and political distraction from social policy, our goals are even more urgent, harder to achieve and the stakes are higher. What we found, as this document explains, was that our original goals are still the right ones. The changes we have all lived through since 2019 are so momentous that when we started to review the 10-year goals we at Shelter had set ourselves back then, in preparation for this new three-year plan, we were open to significant change.
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