Covid-19

The Tannahill Centre has secured £60,548 from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund to help support locals across Paisley's North West area during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding will be shared between the Centre itself, its parent organisation Ferguslie Park Housin

Since the end of March, Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) workers who are employed by the association’s repairs company, Argyll Homes for All (AHFA), have been delivering essential supplies. This has involved the association working with Argyll and Bute Council to deliver food, presc

Ashley Campbell, policy and practice manager at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), discusses how social landlords can allocate homes safely during the current coronavirus pandemic. As part of our response to Coronavirus, we have been speaking to members about their experiences and we also con

Bill Roddie, managing director of Glasgow-based family-owned business Spectrum Properties, has donated £1,500 in Aldi food vouchers to vulnerable families in the city.  For the past five years, Mr Roddie has funded an annual trip to the pantomime for up to 100 vulnerab

In light of the current coronavirus crisis, Port Glasgow-based firms McLaren Packaging and Interlok Divisions have engaged to help Inverclyde Foodbank provide essential services to the most vulnerable people in the area. Both companies have been matching employee donations and ensuring that Invercly

A group of leading charities has called on the Scottish Government and supermarkets to take urgent action to ensure that vulnerable customers are given more support to access essential food supplies.

Instead of providing its usual House Price Report for April and May, ESPC has compiled a timeline of coronavirus and the Scottish property market, highlighting week-to-week impacts and effects.

More than 2000 vulnerable households across Scotland have been helped by an emergency fund set up by Wheatley Group.

Hillcrest's Energy Advice Team (HEAT) has launched a single-question survey to find out what Scottish households’ experience of energy use has been over lockdown to help understand the impacts the lockdown may have had. The survey, which is open to any household – not just Hillcrest tena

Tenants of Thenue Housing who are shielding featured on BBC Scotland’s ‘The Nine’ programme last night.

Homeless veterans at Scottish Veterans’ Residences (SVR) housing support services in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow will benefit from a generous donation of 350 professionally produced face coverings to use when lockdown starts to ease.

The Scottish Parliament’s health and sport committee is to question the cabinet secretary on the impact of coronavirus on Scotland’s care homes.

Melrose-based housebuilder Rural Renaissance Limited (RRL) has secured a six-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland to support its working capital, enabling it to continue to pay suppliers and honour its contractual commitments during the coronavirus crisis. RRL is parent company to

Businesses across the country have now been awarded more than £100 million through the Scottish Government Business Support Fund. The scheme, announced by cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop at the end of April, has to date helped more than 2,500 businesses and 4,160 self-employed people.

A special fund to help council tenants worried about rent arrears during the coronavirus crisis has been put in place by North Lanarkshire Council.  The council has set up £300,000 worth of funding to help those tenants whose financial circumstances have been disrupted during the pandemic