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The Highland Council’s Highland Coastal Communities Fund Strategic Sub-Committee has agreed to provide over £313,000 of grant support to benefit six community-led projects. The new fund is designed to support economic regeneration and sustainable development around coastal areas in Highl

Scotland's youth homelessness charity Rock Trust is marking 30 years of working supporting vulnerable and at-risk young people by bringing the issue of youth homelessness right into the core of the community. The charity’s self-styled ‘Sofa Stories’ installation and engagement even

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated a public access defibrillator (PAD) to the Dunbar Rugby Club to benefit the wider community living near the Hallhill Centre in Dunbar and those using the club. As part of a joint initiative with the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the home builder is donating

Kingdom Housing Association has appointed Susan McDonald as its new executive director of operations. Her appointment is part of a newly revised management structure implemented across the Kingdom Group following a comprehensive organisational review.

Members of the Highland Council's Housing and Property Committee have approved the Housing Annual Assurance Statement for 2021 and were briefed on potential delays to its home-building programme caused by labour shortages, price hikes and supply issues. A regulatory requirement monito

Plans to build more than 500 council homes on the northern edge of Aberdeen are progressing after Bancon Homes gained sign off for a number of planning conditions from the local authority. Since gaining planning permission in principle last November for the development at Cloverhill, immediatel

Professor Ruth Chang is chair and professor of jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at University College, Oxford. Professor Chang will speak at this year’s Scottish Homelessness Conference this Thursday 7 October, day three of the event, about choice and commitm

Coldstream’s Bob Bolton is the winner of £150 worth of garden centre vouchers in Berwickshire Housing Association’s inaugural Gardens Competition.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has joined with the First Minister of Wales and the First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland to demand Prime Minister Boris Johnson “do the right thing” by reversing the decision to withdraw the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credi

Fife Council has reaffirmed its commitment to challenge poverty across the region as part of this week’s national Challenge Poverty Week. The Scotland-wide campaign is designed to highlight that too many people continue to live with the constant pressure of living in poverty and that we must m

An extensive residential development opportunity has been launched in the heart of Cumbernauld.

The traditional way of life for Scotland’s crofters will “ultimately disappear” unless urgent action is taken over an "out of control" land market, the Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) has warned. The body is leading calls for crofting legislation to be overhauled

A new independent body tasked with helping Scotland to achieve the highest environmental standards, and ensure the environment is protected, has been officially launched. Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) will play a crucial role to secure compliance with environmental law, the effectiveness of

The 28th of September saw the close of voting for the Autumn launch of the Partick and Thornwood Ideas Fund, a participatory budgeting project where local residents voted on which community projects they would most like to see funded. The September round of funding received 18 eligible applications

Link Group's sustainability commitments have enabled it to become the first Scottish social housing provider to access a ground-breaking £80 million funding deal from Scottish Widows. Borrowed on a 30-year term, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) linked loan is