Berwickshire Housing Association

Berwickshire Housing Association’s BeFriend Project is to team up with the Eden Project and Abundant Borders to celebrate summer 2021 with a whole ‘Month of Community’.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has joined forces with mental health charity Penumbra on a new pilot project aimed at supporting the mental health and wellbeing of its tenants.

Seven landlords across Scotland have come together with housing software solutions provider Housing Online Ltd to develop a new digital lettings service called These Homes. These Homes is a bespoke system designed to easily capture the needs and aspirations of all applicants who only have to registe

Hart Builders has donated £2,000 to Ayton Primary School as part of its commitment to investing in the local community where it is currently building phase one of a new development for Berwickshire Housing Association.   Located in Beanburn, Ayton, the primary school is close to

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has received £25,000 from the Scottish Government’s Communities Recovery Fund to help local voluntary organisations respond to the challenges presented by Covid-19. The Communities Recovery Fund is part of the £25 million Third Sector Com

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has trailed a Social Value Toolkit method to help measure the impact of the Supporting Communities Fund (SCF) support it has received throughout its communities. Established by the Scottish Government with an initial £20 million investment, the

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is changing the way it engages with its tenants with the appointment of Kerry Hague, a customer and community engagement officer.  Kerry Hague took up the new role this week and the principle aims of her appointment will be to deliver BHA’s strategic

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is continuing to work in partnership with Abundant Borders to encourage the use of its community gardens in both Duns and Ayton. With the uncertainty over any lifting of restrictions due to Covid-19, it has been impossible to create a month-by-month plan of act

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has been awarded £200,000 by The National Lottery Community Fund to support its very successful BeFriend project for the next three years. Since its inception almost nine years ago, BHA’s BeFriend Project has grown from strength to strength and is n

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has unveiled a special ‘Breathing Space’ bench at its new development in Springfield, Duns.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has introduced Housing Proactive, Alertacall’s housing management service, at its independent living courts in Coldstream, Duns and Eyemouth. The service was successfully implemented at Gowanlea, Boston Court and Linkim Court in December 2020 in propertie

To mark its 25th anniversary, Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has sponsored 25 Food Train boxes – one for each year - which will be used to deliver essential food shopping to isolated and vulnerable elderly people during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Staff at BHA BeFriend have been

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has shared images of the progress at the first phase of its new build housing development in Beanburn, Ayton.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has launched a new initiative to help tackle social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and, at the same time, improve the digital awareness of its tenants by loaning them 4G enabled iPads.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is working with Allanbank Arts to bring a Creative Hub to those affected through isolation or anxiety by COVID-19. With financial support of £3,000 from BHA through the Supporting Communities Fund (SCF), Allanton-based Allanbank Arts propose creating a ne