In the space of 24 hours, long-serving Jim Fraser won not one but two awards at separate national housing award ceremonies.

Former estates management inspector at Elderpark, Jim  - who retired in the summer - won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tenants Information Service National Excellence Awards.

Then the following evening he scooped an award of the same name at the CIH Scotland Housing Awards 2024.

The double success is a fitting conclusion to a life of service to community-based housing having spent 43 years at Elderpark.

Jim said after both ceremonies he was “overwhelmed to be recognised for simply doing a job I loved”.

He added: “I am deeply grateful and honoured to have received these two awards from TIS and CIH Scotland. My working life at Elderpark Housing may be over but I have so many fond memories of working with tenants, the wider community and Elderpark colleagues over such a long time. It has been a wonderful journey.”

Elderpark Housing chief executive Gary Dalziel, who attended both events with Committee members and staff, called Jim’s double achievement “truly remarkable”.

Gary added: “There can’t be many people who have won not one but two Lifetime Achievement Awards in the space of 24 hours and if I could handpick someone who should it would have been Jim. They are a fitting recognition of a working life devoted to the local Govan community and thoroughly well deserved. Everyone at Elderpark Housing is thrilled at Jim’s success.”

Jim was one of the most ‘well-kent’ faces in the Govan community because of his travels around the Elderpark housing stock over such a long time.

Jim came to Elderpark in April 1981 and did something which many housing professionals no longer do in their careers. He never left.

He decided to forego opportunities to move within the housing sector because of his desire to serve Elderpark and the neighbourhood where he grew up.

Originally from Glasgow’s Kinning Park, he joined Elderpark as a painter working on decorating closes. That was initially for a 12-week stint but he remained with the Association from that day on eventually becoming Estates Management Inspector in 2006.