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The UK Government has announced that small businesses will benefit from a new fast-track finance scheme providing loans with a 100% government-backed guarantee for lenders. Under the new initiative, businesses will be able to borrow between £2,000 and £50,000 and access the cash within d

With the Community Right to Buy for Sustainable Development coming in to place last weekend, land commissioner Megan MacInnes looks at what it means for communities and for land reform. Last weekend marked the launch of the latest in the Scottish Government’s land reform toolkit – the Co

Aberdeen City Council has reduced the number of people waiting to be housed in the city by more than 1,000 over the last five years, new figures have shown. The local authority waiting list has fallen from more than 7,600 in 2015 to around 6,100.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness charity Cyrenians launched an emergency appeal to enable the charity to respond effectively to the crisis. Image credit: Cyrenians

New powers, which came into force this weekend, give communities the absolute right to buy land for sustainable development and allows them to nominate a third party, such as a housing association, to purchase the land on their behalf in order to develop it in line with community needs. This opens u

Applications for community benefit funds generated by wind farms in South Lanarkshire are to be fast-tracked to support local groups and organisations during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mums, dads and families at risk of poor mental health during pregnancy and the early years will be able to access enhanced peer support, parenting support and perinatal counselling services, with new annual funding of up to £1 million. The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health fund will provide c

The Parish Church of St Cuthbert in Edinburgh has ensured that homeless people in the city still have at least one hot meal a week by distributing takeaway dinners at the foot of Edinburgh Castle.

Age Scotland is asking people across the country to hold a virtual tea party to raise vital funds to support older people in need during COVID-19 and beyond. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the charity's national helpline has received record numbers of calls from older people and their

Springfield Properties has agreed an additional £18 million loan facility with Bank of Scotland as it prepares to navigate the uncertainty surrounding the current lockdown. The housebuilder said the additional support gives the group “sufficient headroom, should it be necessary, to withs

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed an appeal on how affordable housing units subject to ‘golden share’ provisions ought to be valued for council tax purposes.

Maggie Brünjes, Homeless Network Scotland’s chief executive, looks at an unfair pandemic and the reasons why they are today publishing a new framework* to help redress this across homelessness policy and services. Already we know that the risk and impact of COVID-19 is not distributed equ

The detrimental impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown measures imposed on people across Scotland is to be investigated by MSPs. 

Shona Stephen, the chief executive of Queens Cross Housing Association, has donated earnings from her work with the Scottish Government’s Poverty & Inequality Commission to her Association’s local charity Garscube Community Foundation. The donation of £780 has go

ng homes is working hard to support vulnerable tenants and families in North Glasgow during these unprecedented times. With the UK under extended lockdown orders and with many people receiving letters instructing them to ‘shield’ themselves for a period of months, ng homes said it unders