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Campaigners working hard to create green space known as “The Village Garden” in Linwood are celebrating a major cash boost. Linstone Housing announced this week the Linwood Community effort had been awarded £3000 from the Scottish Government’s ‘Community Growing Fu

A high school pupil from Glasgow is proving that old is cool by donating her time to help elderly people at her local retirement development. Keira Archer, a 14-year-old pupil from Port Glasgow High School, chose to complete her work experience at Bield’s Crosshill Gardens due to her passion t

Orkney Islands Council (OIC) is to support the development of a multi-partner £28.5 million renewable energy project which could ultimately eliminate the need for fossil fuels. The ReFLEX Orkney (Responsive Flexibility) project aims to create a ‘smart energy island’ - developing a

Edinburgh heritage body the Cockburn Association has launched a series of thought-pieces under the heading Our Unique City: Our Past, Our City, Our Future to generate a civic conversation that looks to address the many challenges facing the capital now and in the immediate future. Paper Five –

Places for People has unveiled a pioneering joint venture to deliver hundreds of modular homes, as confidence in offsite manufacturing (OSM) grows.

Local community housing projects and charities are being urged to put their case forward as Nationwide makes £500,000 available to help make a difference to communities across the region.

Sanctuary has been given planning permission to build 118 affordable homes in Aberdeen. Sanctuary Homes will create 72 flats and 46 houses for social rent on the site of the former fire station in North Anderson Drive.

National What Works advisor Dr David Halpern has today welcomed the Centre for Homelessness Impact as a new member of the What Works Network.

Nearly £4.5 million is set to be invested in homes and communities across Dundee as a series of tenders is put forward for approval. Potential spending includes over £1,150,000 in properties throughout the city for new heating, kitchens and bathrooms.

Hundreds of new homes are closer to becoming a reality after work got under way on the latest phase of regeneration in Pennywell. Set to complete in 2021, Pennywell Phase 3 is part of a wider housing regeneration project in the area being delivered through a partnership with the City of Edinbur

Delighted tenants have moved into their brand new council homes in Barrhead, marking the first social housing builds by East Renfrewshire Council for a generation.

One tenth of Scots who are in work have had to miss paying gas or electricity bills at least once in the last year because they have run out of money, a new report has found.

The Scottish Government is calling on the UK Government to make radical changes to tackle poverty and inequality in the UK. In its full response to the final report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the Scottish Government welcomes his findings and agrees

Cloch Housing Association has teamed up with Inverclyde Community Development Trust to pilot Inverclyde’s first eBike Sharing Scheme. Launching this June, the Inverclyde eBike Sharing Scheme will offer current Cloch Housing Association tenants the opportunity to try out eBikes to travel around

Kingdom Housing Association is pioneering an innovative new project that aims to break the vicious circle of homelessness and unemployment by simultaneously giving a homeless person a job, a home and support with any complex needs or barriers to sustaining their tenancy. (from left) Bill Banks, Cllr