Bield

More than 30 staff, board members and customers are expected to join a Zoom video call later this month as Bield hosts its first online Annual General Meeting.

Staff at a housing development in Edinburgh have gifted 27 customers with a memoir to remember their lockdown in a positive light and celebrate the easing of restrictions.

Bield is now offering personalised at home care plans tailored around an individual’s needs in West Lothian.

A couple have moved to a new home in Edinburgh after carrying out an innovative property viewing over WhatsApp from South Africa, thanks to staff at housing provider Bield. 

Bield staff at a day care facility in East Dunbartonshire are being commended by their employers after going above and beyond to support customers throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Oakburn Park Day Care in Milngavie pulled together to help support customers and other vulnerable members of the com

Tenants at a Bield housing development in Edinburgh have been kept busy with a new hobby during lockdown, creating a ‘Garden of Hope’ to bring fellow tenants together while remaining socially distant.

Bield has bolstered its senior management team with the appointment of Diana MacLean as director of customer experience and Iain Baxter as digital project lead. The appointments have underpinned Bield's future strategy to continue to improve the lives of Scotland’s older people.

Euan Crawford, a young bagpiper from Linlithgow Academy, has delighted customers at Bield's West Port development in Linlithgow by playing a special ‘outdoors’ lockdown concert. Mr Crawford played in the gardens while residents at the development watched on from their windows.

Pensioners in isolation during the coronavirus lockdown have been able to tuck into a weekly nutritional meal generously donated by a local Bield community group. Tenants at Bield’s sheltered housing development, Greenacre Court in Bannockburn, have been served soup and snacks every Tuesday fo

A South Ayrshire retirement housing development were treated to a fish and chip delivery to lift their spirits amid the coronavirus pandemic. The social committee at Bield’s Carrick Gardens in Ayr decided to organise a mass takeaway delivery for 26 people from local restaurant ‘Fish Plus

Bield has appointed Paula Rice as its new director of finance and resources. Ms Rice brings more than 25 years of experience working across a variety of sectors, her role will see her lead the finance, HR and IT teams across Bield and she has already outlined her determination to support t

As frontline workers continue to see a shortage in PPE equipment, a Bield staff member decided to take matters into her own hands – literally.

Bield has announced the appointment of a new chair to its board of management who will lead the organisation into the future and to ensure it continues to deliver a “significant” positive impact to the wellbeing of older people. Dr Lesley Holdsworth has vast experience across a range of

Bield developments experienced the act of kindness first hand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with a spate of donations of Easter treats for tenants. Crosshill Gardens in Port Glasgow and MacKenzie Court in Grangemouth received Easter Eggs donated by a local Co-Op and a homeless charity.

Bield has been overwhelmed by the kind gestures of two distilleries who have donated hand sanitiser to allow key workers to continue to safely work with vulnerable older people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.