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Ferguslie Park Housing Association’s charitable subsidiary, the Tannahill Centre, held a Multicultural Food Festival to celebrate Burns Night with more than 200 people attending and enjoying food and entertainment from all around the world.

River Clyde Homes Group's building, repairs and maintenance contractor Home Fix Scotland has donated materials and tools to Inverclyde Community Shed, an organisation aimed at combating loneliness and isolation in the region.

A housing association in England has received a governance downgrade after it lost nearly £1 million as a result of a cyber scam.

A proposed 3% rent increase for 2020/21 was agreed by The Highland Council’s new housing and property committee yesterday. The change, which will increase the average weekly council house rent from £75.38 to £77.64 (£2.26 per week), will result in an increased repairs an

A new guide has been published detailing how organisations can take the public with them when planning new building developments or other activities.

Mary Black will lead a new-look board at ANCHO after the North Ayrshire-based housing association made a raft of new appointments. Steven Travers, Leanne Stirling, Kelly Arrol, Nigel Fortnum, Colin Love and Michael Donnelly are joining the ANCHO board and bring with them decades of collect

The continuing uncertainty around Scottish Government investment in housing post-2021 risks reversing the work being done to tackle homelessness, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has warned following the publication of new statistics. The latest homelessness figures from the Sc

Greenock town centre has replaced Ferguslie Park in Paisley as the most deprived area of Scotland, according to official figures. The latest update of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 has been published which identifies the places in Scotland where people are experiencing disad

Music in Hospitals & Care has received £900 in funding from Cairn Housing Association to continue its work visiting hospitals, hospices, care homes, day centres, special schools and community settings to spread ‘Joy Through Live Music’.

Campion Homes has been granted permission to build 29 new homes in Star of Markinch. Concerns had been raised about the Fife village's infrastructure, including its primary school, roads and pavements, and its inability to cope with an influx of people.

Perth & Kinross Council has announced plans to transform a housing block in St Catherine's Square into flats in an attempt to help tackle homelessness across the region.

CBI Scotland has called for a national housing target to be set and more funding to be allocated to planning departments to improve the speed of decision-making.

The amount given in crisis grants increased by more than a third in one quarter as low-income families were provided with more than £3 million to cover emergencies.

A new working group of MSPs, academics, industry and environmental organisations will convene this week to discuss actions to meet Scotland’s new emissions targets.

Ovo Energy has agreed to pay £8.9 million for issuing inaccurate or incomplete information to customers, and for under and overcharging customers due to IT issues.  Ofgem said the breaches occurred while Ovo did not put enough attention to ensuring its processes and governance were capabl