Ayrshire Housing’s Financial Wellbeing Team last year helped tenants access more than £1.3 million of benefits they were previously missing out on. The housing association’s Annual General Meeting heard how the team had supported 318 households across Ayrshire to gain benefits they
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Ayrshire Housing has appointed a new property director who will be responsible for overseeing the significant levels of investment planned for its stock over the next few years. Last year the association announced spending of more than £11 million to improve homes for its tenants, and new appo
A pioneering partnership of Ayrshire housing associations has unveiled a new identity as it continues to strengthen collaboration, share expertise and deliver better outcomes for tenants and communities across the region. Formerly known as the Eydent Group, the partnership will now be known as the A
Ayrshire Housing’s director of communities Alison Lamont reveals the multitude of benefits arising from the Association's Community Connect Fund. Our new Community Connect Fund is proving that spending a little money in the community goes a long way to strengthening neighbourhoods and bringing
Maybole’s walking football team are due to face a new season with a new set of strips following support from Ayrshire Housing’s Community Connect Fund. The group could purchase the new strips due to a £450 grant from the fund.
Tenants in seventeen properties in the villages of Crosshill and Barr are set to see their energy bills lowered thanks to Ayrshire Housing’s Rural Retrofit Programme.
Ayrshire Housing has launched a new Community Engagement Strategy, which outlines in detail how it will seek the views of tenants over the next four years to help shape and improve its services.
Ayrshire Housing has launched a new People and Culture Strategy to create a working environment that it hopes will make it the employer of choice within the Scottish housing sector. The strategy ‘Building Brilliance’ outlines actions and outcomes over the next five years that will
Three Ayrshire housing associations have teamed up to deliver an innovative new reactive repairs service. Ayrshire Housing, Shire Housing Association and Atrium Homes have joined together to appoint Sureserve Energy Services to manage their reactive maintenance contracts across all three organisatio
Ayrshire Housing has appointed a new head of development to drive forward future expansion opportunities. Eleanor Derbyshire will work with Ayrshire Housing’s chief executive, Lesley-Anne Junner on planning and implementing the specification, procurement, programming and delivery of the associ
A new tenant satisfaction survey has shown that Ayrshire Housing is outperforming the Scottish average across all benchmarked indicators. The survey questioned a sample of 680 tenants for their thoughts on the performance of the association across seven indices, covering everything from the qua
Seventeen properties in the villages of Crosshill and Barr are set for energy improvements under Ayrshire Housing’s Rural Retrofit Programme. The Scottish Government has granted £256,000 for the work from its Net Zero Heat Fund. The fund provides support to registered social landlords ac
Ayrshire Housing’s new director of housing and communities is going back to her roots in her new role. Alison Lamont started her life in housing with East Ayrshire Council before embarking on a career that has taken her to Dumfries and Galloway and Glasgow. Most recently a locality housing dir
Ayrshire Housing’s annual general meeting heard about the housing association's £1.6 million investment in existing homes over the past year.
New windows, doors, air source heat pumps and solar panels are all helping to make Ayrshire Housing’s rural homes more energy efficient. Eleven properties in the village of Straiton have recently undergone extensive improvements to help tenants keep energy costs down while keeping their homes