Campbell Robb is to leave Shelter, which he led for seven years, to become chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust next year.
He will succeed the current Joseph Rowntree chief executive Julia Unwin, who is stepping down after ten years.
Under his stewardship, Shelter has become increasingly vocal about the private rented sector, while the organisation itself seems to have become increasingly geared towards political lobbying.
The housing and homeless charity has campaigned on a variety of issues, including a ban on letting agent fees charged to tenants – Shelter was instrumental in having them outlawed in Scotland and has since fought for the same result in England – and longer tenancies.
Robb himself has been at a number of industry conferences and, while his adversarial views may have seldom gone down well with agents, he has never been less than articulate.
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I really hope that Shelter turns to its original aims of helping the homeless and seeking the re-establishment of affordable social housing.Sadly the last seven years have been wasted and the very vulnerable people Shelter were entrusted to help have been let down by the” I’am right Jack when’s my pay cheque going in”attitude.Good luck Shelter I am sure you will re-group and flourish under a proffesional kind hearted new leader.
He should be canonised – St Gerald- patron saint of charitable giving? Never have so many stopped giving because of so few.
Having gnawed his way through the hand and arm that was feeding him Mr Robb is moving on the Rowntrees, presumably for sweet!
Maybe Shelter will calm down without Mr Robb at the helm. Shelter is a valuable and meaningful firm, but their priorities need to be realigned.
It will take a long time to get rid of labour government, anti- agent group think indoctrination of Shelter by Robb. No doubt Joseph Rowntree will now start hollering the same bile and suffer the same contraction of support from our industry.