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The Scottish Housing and Support Conference (SHASC) is a welcome fixture in the housing and support conference calendar. 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SHASC and this year’s event, Your Community, Your Future, will happen on Wednesday 26th October at its longstanding home, the Edinbu

Persimmon Homes is in talks over a potential project to deliver up to 200 new houses in Wormit. The firm is in discussions with Fife Council over the proposed development on the southern edge of the village.

Keith Brown A fund which helps a wide range of projects to support veterans including employability, housing, befriending and wellbeing has been given a £600,000 boost.

An intrepid team of six ‘athletes’ from Melville Housing Association have smashed their charity fundraising target to raise almost £1500 at the Great Scottish Run. Neil Edgar, Dan Hughes, Caroline Langton, Stacey McNealis, Iain Ross and Martin Sloan dug out their lycra and trainers (some for th

Bield is looking for a volunteer befriender to support an older person who lives in Donaldson Court, a Very Sheltered Housing Development in Leith. Volunteer befrienders help service users who feel isolated or who are unable to get out very easily on their own by giving their time on a one-to-one ba

The BBC Good Food Show Scotland returns to the SECC in Glasgow for the 10th year from November 4-6 and to celebrate Scottish Housing News is offering free tickets to the event. The event promises to be a celebration of regional flavours with top quality exhibitors from across the country, including

Ardenglen Housing Association is involved with the Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike and Activity Centre project Glasgow City Council has approved almost £3.6 million of funding for four projects that have successfully bid for Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF) support.

Aberdeen City Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to be assigned a credit rating as it prepares to invest in major housebuilding and construction projects. Credit rating agency Moody's has assigned Aberdeen an Aa2 rating, one level below the United Kingdom as a whole, reflecting

The Isle of Eigg off Scotland's west coast shows the way forward to a renewable future A Warm Homes Act and a national energy efficiency programme will contribute towards the “necessary and achievable” target of producing half of all of Scotland’s energy across heat, transport and electricity

Linstone Housing Association has been shortlisted for the third year in a row for three awards at this year’s Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland Excellence Awards. The awards aim to showcase exemplary individuals and initiatives that deserve to be recognised, and the team at Linstone is delig

Glasgow based energy consultancy company Carbon Futures has been awarded a framework agreement with Link Group to provide energy consultancy services for new-build housing developments over the next four years with an estimated worth in excess of £2 million. The framework will mainly cover the prov

ARK Housing Association chief executive, Jane Gray, writes about how its Citizenship Policy came about. Last month we launched the ARK Citizenship Policy. The policy provides an overarching framework for all person centred and outcomes focussed practice that ARK employs. It sets what we do in the co

Crisis is inviting potential employers, businesses and organisations to an event in Edinburgh today to mark World Homelessness Day. The national charity for homeless people, in association with the International Network of Street Papers, is hosting a range of talks, with a key note speech from found

Stephen McCabe Progress has been made on the principle of sharing services across East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire Councils.

Glasgow City Council has considered the progress made over recent years in tackling the issue of derelict and vacant land in the city, and approved the programme for Vacant and Derelict Land Fund for the next year. The city saw over 40 hectares removed from the Vacant and Derelict Land Register in 2