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(from left) Rhonda Leith, Ayrshire Housing chair, housing officer Margaret Woods and Lochside Mission’s Dylan Harper Ayrshire Housing has launched a new fund aimed at helping smaller groups who want to improve their engagement with their community or to develop new a community initiative.

Chief executive Julia Mulloy with Family Book Festival winners at Philiphaugh Community School, Selkirk Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has sponsored the Family Book Festival event at the Borders Book Festival as part of its on-going commitment to support young people and families in the

An MSP is helping leading safety charity Electrical Safety First to raise awareness of the dangers of electricity to Scotland’s ageing population. Although older people in Scotland aged 60 plus make up 18 per cent of the population, they account for 37 per cent of the casualties and fatalities inv

Shelter Scotland deputy director, Alison Watson, with comedian Damian Kingsley A comedian has travelled over 600 miles without a penny to his name to raise money for charity.

David Mundell A major milestone in the transfer of new welfare powers from Westminster to Holyrood will be reached today which will give First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the opportunity to create a Scottish welfare state within weeks.

The proposed merger of Sanctuary Group and Housing & Care 21 is now off the table after cultural differences emerged between the two organisations. Initially mooted last month, the merger would have seen the creation of a new 32,000-home operation within Sanctuary Group, known as Sanctuary 21, s

A Proposal of Application Notice has been submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council to create a brand new village on farmland to the west of the Capital. Under the plans, more than 1200 homes, a neighbourhood centre, a primary school and new roads and infrastructure would be built at Hatton Mains,

David Thomas The UK's biggest housebuilder Barratt Developments is forecasting a 20 per cent increase in full-year profits but warned that it could slow its pace of construction following the Brexit vote.

Simon Rubinsohn House prices across Scotland have continued to rise following a sustained dip in the supply of new properties coming on to the market, surveyors have reported today.

Armed Forces families have been “badly let down” for years after being provided with homes so bad they often don’t have heating and hot water, according to MPs. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) blamed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and contractor CarillionAmey and said the condit

A new multi-million pound fund which will allow Scottish communities to buy, manage or develop buildings or land opened for business yesterday. Between now and 2020 up to £45 million of Big Lottery Fund cash will be available through Community Assets to support community led projects to develop or

West Dunbartonshire Council has urged residents to report rogue tradesmen after a rise in the number of fly-tipping incidents related to home improvement works. A significant amount of illegally dumped waste has been discovered in a number of areas across the region, including paving slabs and old g

By Conrad Rossouw, digital manager for Shelter Scotland Calling all coders, designers, and housing professionals! Shelter Scotland needs you to help us solve Scotland’s housing crisis. We’re getting together on the 28th of July for a weekend of brainstorming and collaboration to devise digital s

Technology in the 21st Century is providing us with the means to communicate our thoughts and ideas across the planet in a way that would have been unthinkable, even 10 years ago. However good the technology is, it cannot pick up the subtleties of a language, the culture that underpins it, or even t

Pete Jew with his award An Edinburgh man who helped to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for homeless and badly housed people in Scotland has been named the UK’s top charity shop worker.