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HRH The Prince of Wales opened the Community Fridge Network’s 100th fridge at Dumfries House last week to help bring together the local community of East Ayrshire to tackle food waste.

Scotland’s national children’s charity, Children 1st, has received a funding boost to ensure its vital Parentline service can continue to serve parents and carers throughout Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than two-thirds of the Building Scotland Fund (BSF) has been awarded to private developers with only 700 homes allocated for affordable housing to show for the £100 million outlay, according to new data.

Blackwood Homes and Care has successfully completed the transfer of Freespace, a not-for-profit care provider in Edinburgh, in a move that will protect the future of the 130 employees and 40 customers. The transfer meant that the 40 adults, who all have varying disabilities

CIH Scotland has set out its key asks and recommendations for all parties to consider ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections next year.  In its manifesto for housing 2021-2026, it is calling for housing to be at the heart of Scotland’s social and economic recovery from

Kingdom Housing Association has been awarded 180 devices, including iPads and Chromebooks, to help tackle digital exclusion among vulnerable tenants as part of the Connecting Scotland programme.

The Highland Small Communities Housing Trust (HSCHT), a social enterprise which delivers a range of affordable housing and supporting developments in Scottish communities, has rebranded as the Communities Housing Trust. Communities Housing Trust, which was founded as Highland Small Communities

The Social Housing Resilience Group (SHRG) has noted with approval that housing was acknowledged in the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government as an infrastructure issue and core to social and economic regeneration. Among the proposals in the Programme for Government was the estab

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has published supplemental COVID-19 guidance to the SFHA Self-Assurance Toolkit. The guidance provides additional COVID-19 'flags' to consider in conjunction with the SFHA Self Assurance Toolkit; an updated template process for developing an Ann

Homeless Action Scotland CEO Gavin Yates reports back from the Homeless Prevention Strategy Group (HPSG) and warns that despite worrying homelessness statistics this year, potentially yet more bad news is on the horizon.

HACT launched its roadmap for the future of social value in social housing.

All of Scotland’s 32 local authorities and more than 25 individual community regeneration projects will receive a share of £30 million of new investment for regeneration and town centres. The funding will be available immediately through the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) and the

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling for an extension of the furlough scheme as a new poll reveals that workers in Scotland are concerned about their ability to pay bills and rent over the next 12 months.

IPPR Scotland has called on the next Scottish Government to ensure the country recovers from COVID-19 by rebuilding Scotland on the foundations of social, economic and climate justice.

A new project conducted by the University of Dundee aims to tackle the surge in Scottish youth homelessness caused by COVID-19.  Dr Andrea Rodriguez, from the University’s School of Dentistry, said that improving access to support services, adopting participatory approaches, and integrati