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Today marks a year since 30 people with their own personal stories of homelessness, from working in the sector and living the experience, came together to form All In For Change. The group is the first such in Scotland combining both lived and professional experience.

A new fund to support charity initiatives that reduce the climate change impact associated with energy use has been launched today by the Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. Managed and delivered by Energy Saving Trust, the Energy Redress Scheme collects voluntary payments from ener

Sixteen of Scotland's brightest and best university leavers have joined Wheatley Group's Ignite graduate training programme.

It was a blooming lovely surprise for Linthouse Housing Association tenant Ella Devoy when the Association dropped by to help celebrate her 90th birthday.

A community group in Glasgow has been praised for its pioneering commitment to support people with disabilities by planning the city’s first openly accessible activity space. Hawthorn Housing Co-operative (HHC) believes that its new outdoor play and fitness equipment plan would provide a massi

Under One Roof (UOR), the highly praised advice website for flat owners and their advisers in Scotland, is set to expand as it becomes a new charity. To date, the website has operated with a voluntary Steering Group managed initially by the RIAS and subsequently by Changeworks, the Edinburgh based e

A high-tech new heating system which will transform the way homes, businesses and public buildings in Clydebank are heated is now operational.

West Lothian Council has approved plans to build 110 new homes at the site of the former Vodaphone facility in Livingston after securing assurances on road safety in the area. Plans to redevelop the facility located off Hunter Road were halted last month after councillors expressed concerns about an

Plans have been submitted to convert a derelict warehouse into 39 council flats in Ayr.  Developer Ashleigh has submitted a planning application in principle to build the three-storey block at the former Jewson depot.

Plans to build 40 affordable homes at the site of the old Ellon Academy have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council’s Formartine area committee. The plans were given approval on the proviso road safety concerns be addressed.

Taxes on land and property could serve as a powerful tool for helping Scotland develop a robust, resilient wellbeing economy, according to a new report published today for the Scottish Land Commission.

itison’s annual fundraiser for Social Bite has been launched to help those most in need this Christmas.

An initiative which provides free books and connects with people experiencing homelessness through stories is appealing for funds to help more people recover from life on the streets this winter, and beyond. This Christmas, Streetreads aims to open up worlds of mystery and history, romance and

Cyrenians' FareShare depot based in Leith has distributed 1,300 tonnes of food to beneficiaries across the South East of Scotland, creating over 3.1 million meals, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March.

The very strong demand witnessed in Scotland’s housing market since the summer started to ease back in November as the end of the year nears, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey. More respondents in Scotland saw the number of newly agreed sales fall last month than saw them