Housing Options Scotland

Housing Options Scotland is celebrating a successful bid for funding from Nationwide Building Society to help older people in Scotland to live independently for longer. The £50,000 grant from the UK’s biggest building society will support the organisation in partnership with Elderly Accommodation

Jil Dyson Housing advice charity Housing Options Scotland has hired a new housing options broker following a £50,000 funding boost from Nationwide Building Society.

Starting in just one week, Housing Options Scotland will be holding free drop in events all over the country to give housing information, advice and support to disabled people, older people, disabled veterans and those who support them, and there might be an event coming to a town near you. Moira Ba

National charities Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) and Housing Options Scotland (HOS) have been shortlisted for a community grant of up to £50,000 from Nationwide Building Society.

Front: Nancy Birtwhistle. Back from left to right: Christine Jackson, HOS former client; Olivia Lindsay, HOS Broker; Moira Bayne, HOS CEO; Dawn Richardson, HOS former client Nancy Birtwhistle, the winner of the Great British Bake Off 2014, has regaled 50 lucky cake lovers to join her at a fundraisin

Nancy Burtwhistle Housing Options Scotland will host Nancy Birtwhistle, winner of season five of the BBC's Great British Bake Off, at a luxurious afternoon tea in May.

Image courtesy of the Rock Trust Grants totalling £1.6 million will fund innovative services aimed at tackling homelessness and improving housing, particularly for the most vulnerable.

(from left) John Evans, HOS Board member; Fraser Gilmore, HOS engagement & development manager; Danny Jones, HOS client; Graeme Jackson, HOS client; Tony Carruthers – Military Matters Associate and Christine Jackson, HOS client Housing Options Scotland (HOS) invited employees, clients, busines

Housing Options Scotland (HOS) is to celebrate 20 years of offering housing advice to disabled people, older people and veterans with a commemorate lunch next week. Founded back in 1997, the Edinburgh-based organisation has grown from a small operation to a well-established charity helping an averag

Moira from Housing Options Scotland and Danielle from Link's LIFT team Link Group Ltd and Housing Options Scotland continued to work together to raise awareness of crucial housing options by participating in the Independent Living Scotland event, at Glasgow’s SEC last week.

Horizon Housing Association has published a University of Stirling research report on a pilot study of effectiveness in letting adapted social housing. The study successfully designed and tested a research method for evaluating the effectiveness of letting procedures for adapted housing, using a co-

The results of a study highlighting the housing advice, information and support pathways experienced by the armed forces community have been published by Housing Options Scotland (HOS). The unique piece of research was commissioned by The Scottish Government Veterans Fund, with the objective of prov

A staff member speaking to a disabled client Following the success of Housing Options Scotland’s summer tour last year, the organisation will be hitting the road again to provide housing information and advice events for disabled people, older people, disabled veterans and those who support them.

Horizon Housing Association has been awarded a £92,500 grant for an 18 month research project into the allocation of adapted and accessibly designed social housing. The funding, allocated by the Disability Research into Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) programme as part of a £5 million proj

An evaluation of an innovative pilot housing brokerage service has found the initiative to be an effective method for assisting younger adults with visual impairment to find a new home. Released by sight loss charity Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT), the evaluation report found that the majority of yo