Wheatley Group

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Wheatley Group’s Homelessness Lead, Catherine Wilkie, explains how the Housing First partnership is helping the most vulnerable people off the streets. Last year in Scotland, nearly 35,000 people presented themselves as homeless. That is 35,000 too many people paying a devastating human cost f

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Wheatley Group has been nominated eight times in the prestigious Scottish Home Awards. The housing, care and property-management group has five finalists – Cube Housing Association, Dunedin Canmore, GHA and Loretto Housing and West Lothian Housing Partnership – in the Large Affordable Ho

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Wheatley Group is making a last call for young people looking for a Modern Apprenticeship. The housing, care and property-management group is recruiting 31 school leavers for its award-winning programme.

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Students from disadvantaged communities are being offered up to £1,500 a year by Wheatley Group to support them through college or university. The group, which has helped 100 people with their further or higher education studies in the past two years by providing bursaries, is now inviting app

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Two organisations delivering homes in Balerno have come together to provide the village with bespoke new gateway signage announcing it as the ‘Gateway to the Pentlands’. For more than three years, the desire for new signs has represented a key element of thinking behind the community cou

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Wheatley Group staff are being given new training to help tackle domestic abuse. The housing, property management and care organisation has partnered with national charity SafeLives to train all of its staff in understanding abuse, spotting the signs that a customer could be a victim and knowing how

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Eight housing associations are to share a £510,000 investment from the Scottish Government towards electric hire car clubs to allow people to rent low-emission vehicles. The Plugged-in Households Grant Fund will support the associations to procure the services of car clubs.

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The first stage of the expansion of a West Lothian village has taken shape with 55 new affordable homes already making a difference to people’s lives. West Lothian Council leader, Councillor Lawrence Fitzpatrick, marked the milestone for Winchburgh with the official opening of the houses.

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Wheatley Group is given more school leavers the opportunity to get their career off to a flying start with plan to recruit 31 young people to its award-winning Modern Apprenticeship programme. Wheatley has 25 Business Administration and six Environmental Apprenticeships up for grabs for people aged

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GHA has hailed the transformative impact of its new homes on the lives of its tenants and communities. Tenants have just moved into 51 new GHA homes built on the site of the former high-rise blocks at Tarfside Oval in Cardonald.

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One of the world’s biggest computer games is helping children in Glasgow learn about the role Maryhill played in the First World War. ‘Building the Barracks’ is a free download for Minecraft, allowing gamers to experience what it was like to live and work in the army base back in 1

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Tenants from two housing associations have helped steer their communities to a five-star award. Environmental teams from Dunedin Canmore and West Lothian Housing Partnership (WLHP), both part of Wheatley Group, worked with residents to spruce up their neighbourhoods and keep them looking spick and s

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Cube Housing Association has started work on 46 affordable homes for social rent in Dumbarton. The homes on Talisman Avenue in Westcliff are being built for Cube, part of Wheatley Group, by CCG (Scotland) Ltd.

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