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Stevyn Wilkinson Dundee based employment and training charity Craigowl Communities, part of the Hillcrest Group, is re-launching two of its popular jobs training programmes later this month with a view to getting young people into quality jobs with some of the city’s top employers.

Jenny Gardner A regional manager at Blackwood has smashed her target of raising £600 to replace a Stirling care home’s beloved greenhouse after it was destroyed last year.

Stirling’s first street clinic offering housing and homelessness advice is setting up home today on Port Street. Experts from charity Shelter Scotland will be on hand from 10am-3pm to offer help and advice on a range of housing issues, including rent and mortgage arrears, fuel poverty, money and d

Scottish Borders Council is encouraging local communities from across the region to apply to its community grant scheme. The scheme is open to all constituted community groups across the Borders and provides grants of up to £5,000 to support projects which:

Falkirk Council tenants are set to benefit from a wide range of improvements to their homes over the next year, as the local authority agreed its housing budget for next year. The investment, which was agreed as part of a larger three year £81 million budget, will upgrade existing homes and add new

Dr Quazi Mahtab Zaman Architecture students at Robert Gordon University (RGU) have been tasked with developing ideas to promote a sense of neighbourhood in two council housing tower blocks in Aberdeen.

Purchasing a property is a better move than renting for Scottish first-time buyers, research by Bank of Scotland has found. The average monthly buying cost, including mortgage payments, associated with a first-time buyer buying a three bedroom house stood at £525 in December 2015; £120 (or 19 per

Norma Jones Suddenly, but very peacefully, Norma Jones, housing consultant and former Edinburgh councillor, passed away on Saturday, 6th February, 2016, at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.

The number of Scottish households in fuel poverty fell by around 15,000 between 2013 and 2014 but still represents 34.9 per cent of all households, according to a new report. A briefing update from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe), estimated that there were 845,000 households livin

Young homeless people in Scotland are being left in temporary accommodation for up to two years while they wait for a settled home and the situation is likely to get worse, according to Homeless Action Scotland. The charity’s annual youth homelessness survey revealed that the duration that young p

Gordon Laurie Two housing providers owned by Sanctuary Group will merge with Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association after tenants overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal to unite.

Demolition of former council offices at Tantallon Avenue in Glenrothes to make way for more much needed council homes is now complete. The eleven new houses are starting to take shape at the Bankhead House site with kits now being erected by Fife Council’s team of house builders. The homes will be

(from left) Peter Shepherd, Cllr Alan Lafferty, resident Donald Devlin, site manager Willie McBlain Seven affordable homes in Eaglesham have been handed over to East Renfrewshire Council by Mactaggart & Mickel Contracts, a division of the Mactaggart & Mickel Group.

Stephen McCabe Inverclyde Council has agreed to freeze its council tax but for the first time has postponed setting its budget for next year until next month.

As part of the national TIS Scrutiny ‘Making It Happen’ programme, over 50 local authority and housing association staff from across Scotland gathered at Norton House Hotel last week for the highly rated ‘The Big Conversation’ Housing Staff ResidentialConference. With the programme being set