City Of Edinburgh Council

Edinburgh Council has approved a ‘boiler on prescription’ scheme to improve residents’ health and reduce emergency NHS admissions. The pilot seeks to build on a similar scheme in Sunderland in 2014 by Gentoo Group and Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group.

Stockbridge played host to the latest of Viewpoint’s Health and Wellbeing events. Together with invaluable help from the tenants’ Social Committee who provided excellent food, catering and laughs, a variety of stalls were held by health and wellbeing providers.

Cammy Day The City of Edinburgh Council is to spend at least £3.3 million to make private homes across the capital warmer, more environmentally friendly and cheaper to heat.

Eileen and Brian Stemp (centre), two of the development's phase one residents, in their new flat with Ian Watson, Master of The Merchant Company of Edinburgh’s Endowments Trust - one of the project's main backers (left) and Mike Afshar (right), chairman of The Merchant Company’s Frail and Elderl

Iain Gordon, Chief Executive of Bethany Christian Trust and Chair of SHAPE:

Families in Edinburgh with young children affected by homelessness are being helped by a new service following an award of £405,576 by the Big Lottery Fund.