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A group formed through Partick Housing Association (PHA) staff and local residents who wanted to improve the local environment has held its latest Day of Action. The Partick & Thornwood Action Group were joined by local politicians and a representative from Hillhead Action Group for the day.

Viewpoint staff in Edinburgh has achieved the impressive feat of raising a massive £5000 for Marie Curie over a two year period. Following an organisation-wide vote at their staff conference in 2013 fundraising started that very day. By June 2014, £1,940 had been raised and handed over to Fiona Bu

Dundee’s healthy eating credentials were given a bus-shaped boost this week when the Food Bus parked up at Hillcrest headquarters in the city’s Technology Park. Part of Healthier Scotland’s Focus on Food charitable food education programme, the Food Bus is an articulated lorry which opens out

McInnes Gardner Architects have seen off competition from hundreds of entrants to win a Sunday Times Homes Awards competition to solve Britain’s housing crisis. The Glasgow practice’s ArcHouse is intended to serve as a template for low-cost volume housing within planned new garden cities which w

Beth Reid Over the past month, the Crisis policy team has been to Liberal Democrat, Labour, Conservative and SNP conferences, meeting politicians, going to fringe events and listening to debates and has been blogging about their experiences at each.

Social landlords in the UK need to carefully consider how they bill residents for heating in district heating schemes, says new research findings published by environmental charity Changeworks. “Identifying the fair share: billing for district heating” investigates the experiences of social land

Hillcrest Group recognised the learning achievements of its staff in style at an event at Dundee’s Discovery Point. Over 70 staff members and guests from across Scotland gathered at the charitable organisation’s Celebrating Achievement event to mark individual successes and qualifications gained

Margaret Burgess More than 164,000 vulnerable households, including around 54,000 families with children, have received essential help to buy everyday products like nappies, food and cookers through the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Cairn published its 2015 annual report at its recent AGM where chief executive Jason MacGilp celebrated notable highlights from an encouraging year of improved performance and customer satisfaction. The event also saw Cairn welcome two new board members.

Aileen McLeod The Scottish Green Party has described yesterday’s ministerial statement on Scotland’s greenhouse gas emission targets as a missed opportunity to show real commitment to energy efficient housing as part of efforts to tackle climate change and fuel poverty.

North Lanarkshire Council has agreed to carry out a month-long public consultation into how the local authority can make £45 million in savings. The council revealed last week that more than 1,000 posts could be at risk as it needs to save £68.3m over the next two financial years.

Older people who present to their GP each Monday because ‘they have no-one else for company’, a woman so socially isolated she lived without power for months and young people who ‘can forget what it is like to be in the company of other young people’ are just some examples of the extreme neg

Scotland enjoyed an 8 per cent rise in the number of new homes registered by local authorities during the last quarter, according to new figures released today by NHBC. Councils registered a total of 3,313 new homes between July and September in 2015, compared to 3,060 homes over the same period las

The Moray Council needs to “significantly increase” the pace of change and improvement if it is to build on the progress made over the last two years, according to the Accounts Commission. A report published by the watchdog today looks at developments since a 2013 audit on how the council was me

Council leader Martin Rooney West Dunbartonshire Council has approved a plan to close the predicted budget gap and secure frontline services for local residents in 2016/17.