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Williamsburgh Housing Association has provided provide over £1000 of sports equipment to Williamsburgh Primary School thanks to its Community Benefit Contract Clause with Everwarm Ltd.

Almost 8000 new applications for social housing have been received by West Lothian Council in the last three years. The West Lothian Courier submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the local authority and asked a range of questions on the social housing and homelessness waiting lists.

Linstone Housing and demolition company Reigart are helping youngsters to get into the habit of reading books. Reigart has donated £500 to help widen the reach of Linstone's "Imagination Library" project.

Ruchazie Housing Association, one of many small community-based housing associations in Glasgow, has supported its tenants throughout the year and continues to deliver crucial support in this second lockdown period. Since March last year, the Association and its community partners which include Glas

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee has backed the underlying intentions behind the Scottish Government’s new Domestic Abuse Bill, but warned that serious practical concerns raised during the course of its scrutiny need to be addressed. Both legal bodies and the police signalled

Appeals into enforcement notices served by the City of Edinburgh Council to bring the unlawful use of properties for short-term lets have been dismissed by the Scottish Government. The local authority set up the cases in response to reports of noise and disturbance from four flats operating as

The Housing & Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (FTS) has made the first ever award of a Wrongful Termination Order, penalising a landlord who had evicted a tenant on bogus grounds. Tenant Jesus Rodriguez-Ortega had rented a studio flat in Edinburgh from Cesar Domingu

Wheatley Group is to bring festive cheer to almost 17,000 vulnerable households across Scotland. The housing, care and property-management group will distribute through its six housing associations – GHA, Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership, Dunedin Canmore, Cube, Loretto Housing an

hub West Scotland (hWS) has said it has been overwhelmed by the incredible response to its 2020 Winter Warmer Appeal on behalf of its charity partner PEEK (Possibilities for Each and EveryKid).

Caroline Gillespie considers proposed additional powers to tackle domestic abuse and recent statistics on charges for, and prosecution of, domestic abuse. Scotland’s police, courts and social landlords may soon be given additional powers to protect victims of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse

Recognising the additional pressures charities are facing during these uncertain times, Fife Housing Group has donated a further £5,000 to some of those providing assistance to the people most in need within their local communities. As well as topping up the donations made to Kirkcaldy Fo

Councillors on the City of Edinburgh Council's planning committee are being asked to consider a revised timetable for a radical plan to build a more sustainable future as the capital grows in the coming years.

More than 23,000 iPads and Chromebooks are being distributed among digitally excluded low-income families and care leavers in Scotland, as part of the latest phase of the £43 million Connecting Scotland programme. As well as a new device, recipients also receive mobile data and help to use the

The important work of the Highland Violence Against Women Partnership (HVAWP) was discussed by members of the Highland Council’s Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee meeting yesterday. The Highland Violence Against Women Partnership is a group of services who work together to prevent al

Urgent action is needed to help families repair their finances to stay afloat over the coming months in the face of a COVID-19 winter, according to a new report from IPPR Scotland.