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Jane and Mary enjoy each other’s company Berwickshire Housing Association’s (BHA) befriending project for older people in Berwickshire, BeFriend, has been awarded five years’ funding by the Big Lottery Fund.

The Marie Trust, the charity that provides crisis intervention for people sleeping rough in Glasgow, has announced that so far 39 participants have signed up to take part in its first ‘sleep rough for 1 night so other people don’t have to’. The ‘sleep rough night’ will be held in Skypark�

Plans for Pittscottie Road Kingdom Housing Association has finalised the land purchase for its site at Pitscottie Road, Cupar and obtained full planning approval for a £6.5 million project that will provide 49 new homes for affordable rent to meet a range of housing needs.

Luss Estates Company has agreed to gift a parcel of land to Link Housing to enable the building of five affordable homes in Luss. The value of the land is in excess of £150,000, in addition to which Luss Estates has undertaken to provide further financial support, if required, to bridge the gap bet

Graeme Brown Shelter Scotland has urged struggling tenants to seek help after it was revealed that Aberdeen City Council is owed more than £2 million in rent payments.

Scottish Borders Council has surpassed its affordable housing targets for the 2015/16 financial year and also over the last four years. An updated report on the council’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2015-20 revealed that 220 affordable homes were delivered in the Scottish Borders during the

A showhome at Strathisla Park in Keith A North East property firm has unveiled its latest housing development in Moray and announced plans for further expansion in Aberdeenshire and Ross-shire.

Developers behind plans for a mixed-use development on a vacant site in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh have updated their initial proposals to take account of feedback from the local community, the planning authority and statutory consultees, as well as current market conditions. A planning appli

Bill and Lillias Anderson say the improvements made to their home thanks to Warmworks have been ‘life changing’ With more than £200 million of support still available, the 2000th customer of a Scottish Government scheme to help vulnerable people trapped by fuel poverty has urged people to take

Plans for an anaerobic digester plant with the capacity to produce enough energy for 3,000 homes have been given the green light by Angus Council. The Courier has reported that the Hatton Farm project by Clova Renewables will stretch over almost two hectares to the south of the A92 Dundee to Arbroat

Local community volunteers from the GOLD Group and staff from Garrion People’s Housing Co-op Ltd supported volunteer staff from Virgin Media as they donated their work hours to help local volunteers in Gowkthrapple, Wishaw. Alongside local community volunteers from the GOLD Group, the Virgin Media

A tenant at a Bield retirement housing development in Dundee has brewed up a storm by organising a coffee morning that raised £750 for charity. Mary Thomas, who lives at Kingsburn Court, held the morning in the sitting room at the development for the second consecutive year with the money made bein

Terrie Alafat Tenants who receive the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) face an increasingly widening gap between the help with their housing costs and the actual rent they pay, new Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) research has found.

A homelessness charity has criticised a survey which aims to gather the public’s opinion over begging in Glasgow city centre and warned it could lead to homeless people being further stigmatised. Homeless Action Scotland said the survey, which is being conducted by Community Safety Glasgow (CSG),

Plans have been submitted to build 40 homes on a derelict piece of land in Dundee. The patch of land on Eliza Street has been lying empty for decades and the proposal to build affordable homes is “much-needed” according to Alan Whitelaw of legal firm Eden Law.