Eildon Housing Association

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Eildon Housing Association has been announced as a finalist at the prestigious Scottish Home Awards 2021 for the Social Housing Developer of the Year category. The Borders charity was declared a finalist after the judging panel assessed more than 130 entries in 18 categories received from 70 organis

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The Eildon Group has received the prestigious recognition of being awarded 5 Stars through the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) recognised for Excellence (R4E) framework. R4E is an international recognition scheme for organisations that demonstrate high levels of performance against

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Students from Borders College paid a visit to the doctor’s recently to learn more about how properties can be re-purposed and retrofitted with new technology, such as ground source heating systems, to significantly reduce a building’s carbon footprint. Borders College students with Eildo

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Eildon Housing has hailed the "tremendous" progress which has been made to deliver more new affordable homes across the Borders despite delays caused by the pandemic. The Passivhaus development at Newton St Boswells

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Eildon Housing Association has teamed up with Buckholm Ltd to deliver high quality affordable homes on a designated housing site at Buckholm Corner in Galashiels which has lain vacant for a significant number of years.

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Eildon Group is delighted to hear that it has been successful in its application for funds from the ‘Community Fund’ from Utilita – a smart Pay as You Go Energy provider – to support ongoing work at its Borders Community Food Hub. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Eil

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Eildon has been successful in securing two lots of funding from the Peeblesshire Charitable Trust worth £1,500 each to give extra support to tenants living at local developments Riverside House and Dovecot Court. Teresa Dunlop, co-ordinator at Riverside House, confirmed they had made

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When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold back in April 2020, Eildon Housing Association got together with the homelessness charity Cyrenians with support from Scottish Borders Council to collectively distribute much needed food supplies to foodbanks and community groups in the S

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Scottish Borders Council's approval for its new Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) has been welcomed by Eildon Housing Association, the largest provider of new homes in the region. The ambitious plan for the delivery of 1,125 new affordable homes across the region between 2021 a

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The Eildon Group has announced the appointment of Neil Wilson Prior as its new director of property assets. Neil, who was formerly better neighbourhoods programme manager at Tower Hamlets Homes in London has made the move north to the Scottish Borders along with his family, to take up the new p

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Eildon is looking forward to this month's prestigious 2020 Scottish Home Awards after being ‘virtually’ shortlisted for two awards. The two categories the Association is up for are:

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Eildon topped another great year by welcoming three new members on to its board of management. For the first time in the organisation's history, its 47th AGM was held virtually, with Eibhlin McHugh, Paul Gilbert and Gary Brown welcomed on board.

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