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Communities cabinet secretary Angela Constance with staff and volunteers at The Green Room in Kirknewton, who benefited from Community Ownership Support Service funding last year Communities in Scotland own more than 500,000 acres of land, according to new statistics released by the Scottish Governm

An employability course aimed at young people between the ages of 16 and 25 has been named ‘Youth Employability Project of the Year 2017’ at the SURF Awards. LinkLiving’s Step On project received its award from Kevin Stewart, minister for local government and housing.

Greenock-based arts charity RIG Arts has scooped a major national award for its Broomhill Project with housing association River Clyde Homes. The cultural activities to support a three-year £26 million regeneration project to transform a Greenock community comprising more than 600 homes won the Cre

(from left) Back row: Claire Anderson, Charlotte Forrest, Mark Cummings, Andrew Kaye, Bills Banks and Norah Smith. Front row: Laura Cowan, Kevin O’Neill, Jacqueline Bell, Frances Howie, Jennifer Kennedy and Susan Briggs The latest group of Kingdom Support & Care staff have successfully gained

Monday afternoons at 2pm are proving to be a special time for the 3 and 4-year-old children at First Nursery in Peebles. Their routine for the last few months has been to don their hats and coats, and head across with their teachers in a crocodile formation to visit the tenants at Eildon-owned Dovec

Over 200 people in Dundee supported by Gowrie Care got into the festive spirit at the Apex Hotel with their biggest disco to date. Gowrie Care manages a number of services throughout the city which support people to live their lives. Gowrie currently supports people who have a learning disability, m

Customers at a Greenock care home have become the latest group to showcase the healthy benefits of pet therapy. Bunny & Co mobile petting zoo visited Blackwood’s MacLehose Court in Inverclyde with a broad range of animals for the customers to hold and experience.

Human Appeal, a British humanitarian aid NGO, is holding a comedy show in Glasgow as part of its campaign to raise £1.1 million to fundraise for people in around the world and the in the UK who are vulnerable to winterisation, such as homeless people, refugees and internally displaced people. The e

Image of the Grenfell Tower fire courtesy of Natalie Oxford via Twitter The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched a new project to examine the human rights and equality dimensions of the Grenfell Tower fire after its application to participate in the official inquiry was declined.

A “dysfunctional land market” lies at the root of Scotland’s housing crisis and intervention is required to increase the supply of land for new homes, according to a new discussion paper. The first in an independent series of discussion papers commissioned by the Scottish Land Commission, ‘T

Laurie Macfarlane Laurie Macfarlane, the author of a paper which looks at how the public sector could intervene to improve the operation of the land market and increase the supply of land for new housing, discusses his findings.

Social landlords in Scotland have delivered a “strong performance” in providing annual gas safety checks in tenants’ homes, according to a new report published by the Scottish Housing Regulator. The Regulator’s report is the outcome of its national thematic inquiry into how landlords meet th

(from left) Jamie McLean, Lynne Donnelly and Councillor Philip Saxton. Credit Iain McLean Photography. West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA), in conjunction with the Contracts division of Mactaggart & Mickel Group, is starting construction of Symington’s first affordable housing developm

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a “comprehensive study” into domestic heat networks to ensure households are getting a good deal. Heat networks - systems that heat multiple homes from one central source – currently supply about half a million UK homes through about 17,

Ulva Ferry Housing project – the first ever winner of the new Housing category River Clyde Homes and LinkLiving were named as category winner at the 2017 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration last night as the first ever recipient of the new Housing category was also announced.