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Berwickshire Housing Association’s BeFriend project is joining forces with Abundant Borders to take its Lunch Plus programme to towns and villages across the district. Villagers enjoy the recent Lunch Plus event held in Grantshouse Village Hall

Dundee City Council’s community benefits policy has created dozens of employment opportunities, apprenticeships and work experience opportunities through major city construction projects, despite the challenges of the pandemic, a report to councillors will highlight next week. Councillors will

A consultation has been launched by the Scottish Government on a new heating benefit that will give around 400,000 low-income households the reassurance of a guaranteed £50 payment every winter. The Low Income Winter Heating Assistance will be introduced from winter 2022 to replace the current

BBC Alba's European current affairs programme Eòrpa has visited Caithness and Sutherland to find out about the impact fuel poverty has on rural Scotland. Around 42% of households in rural Scotland are living in fuel poverty, which is defined as when a person needs to spend more than 10%

Private rental sector and build to rent residential and urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital Group has strengthened its team with four new appointments across Manchester, London and Edinburgh. Following Sigma’s acquisition by pan-European private equity specialist PineBridge Benson Elli

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is launching this year’s Winter Appeal with its first-ever TV advert.

Places for People has unveiled its new four-bedroom detached show home at Tornagrain, the newest town in the Highlands and located only eight miles east of Inverness.

With just two months to go until new fire safety legislation comes into effect, influential trade association SELECT is reminding homeowners to ensure they have compliant heat, smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms installed. The campaigning body for the electrical industry in Scotland says it&rsquo

A £1,000 donation from the CALA Homes community bursary initiative has supported Aberdeenshire North Foodbank with a regional initiative that will help provide local families with the food, equipment and skills to prepare healthy meals. The scheme is running across the foodbank’s five Ab

As part of its ongoing commitment to working in partnership with local communities, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has recently donated funding to Cramond Playgroup to cover some of its additional costs linked to the ongoing health emergency. The funding includes providing parents access to a digital p

An estimated 256 people died while experiencing homelessness in Scotland in 2020, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland, with more than half of the deaths being drug-related.

A planning application has been submitted for 45 apartments across two blocks in Govan for Elderpark Housing Association. 

Listed housebuilder Springfield Properties has agreed a conditional acquisition of Inverness-based housebuilder Tulloch Homes for a net consideration of £56.4 million. Springfield’s third acquisition since joining the market in 2017, the directors believe the move will significantly enha

Osprey Housing has developed a new relationship working together with a local housebuilder for the first time to create six ‘tenure blind’ homes as part of a new south Aberdeenshire development. The properties form part of Fotheringham Homes’ Parklands estate in the village of Mary

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has published a summary of the risks that it will focus on in its next annual risk assessment.