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A brand new affordable housing development in Aberfeldy has already won its first accolade after being granted a Secured by Design (SBD) Gold Award by Police Scotland. Secured by Design is a national police initiative that encourages developers to create new and refurbished housing projects with a v

Kind-hearted Hillcrest staff have raised over £12,000 last year for a range of local charities and projects. The money was raised through various initiatives taking place throughout 2018 to support a number of charities working to make a difference.

A group of talented performers with support needs wowed the crowd with their rendition of the classic fairy tale Snow White in Dundee last week. Supported by Gowrie Care, the Glee Club Drama Group performed Snow White and Friends to an audience of over 50 people at Gowrie’s community hub in th

More than half of Scottish households have been plunged into fuel poverty as a result of crippling energy prices with people going to astonishing lengths in order to keep warm, new research has revealed. A survey carried out by Hillcrest Housing Association, which was open to the general public and

A Dundee woman is set to pack her bags for Lebanon, to help refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in neighbouring Syria. Amera Sajid, a money advice worker for Gowrie Care, which is part of the Hillcrest Group of Companies, will travel to the Middle Eastern country for a week on January 24 with the

Two Dundee school pupils have cast their gaze firmly on their future careers, completing eight-week work experience programmes with the Hillcrest Group. Declan Coughlin from Harris Academy and Graeme Cosgrove from Craigie High School – both fifth year pupils – got hands-on in their

An appeal set up by Gowrie Care’s community recovery service has accumulated hundreds of toiletry essentials for homeless and people in recovery in Dundee and the surrounding area this Christmas. The items, which include shampoo, body wash, toothpaste and toothbrushes, have been sorted into to

Santa with John Haliburton Over 250 Gowrie Care service users and staff got into the festive spirit last week when they attended the charity’s annual winter disco at Dundee’s Apex Hotel.

(from left) Gowrie Care chairperson Janet Lynch, Lord Provost Ian Borthwick and Gowrie Care service user Allison Douglas Dundee’s Lord Provost Ian Borthwick opened Gowrie Care’s new accessible holiday home in the Coldside area of Dundee yesterday.

Hillcrest staff members have brought more than just good tidings to Tayside Children’s Hospital at Ninewells, donating selection boxes and gifts. The staff from Hillcrest’s Tom Johnstone Road office in Dundee donated the gifts, aiming to bring some Christmas cheer to the young patients.

Clare McNally (left) and Robyn Rae from Hillcrest Hillcrest has teamed up with charity Togs for Tots to Teens to donate a sleigh-load of gifts to children suffering poverty in Dundee.

Plans have been submitted for a block of flats at Dundee’s City Quay which will have an affordable housing element managed by Hillcrest Housing Association. Victoria Dock (Dundee) Ltd (VDDL), which is headed up by various individual developers, wants to build 122 apartments in two separate blocks,

A number of Dundee not-for-profit organisations with support from the business community have thrown a cracker of a Christmas party for over 100 older people at risk of isolation this Christmas. The party was organised as part of the Helping Older People Engage (HOPE) programme, and involved not-for

Alastair Gardiner, head of service at Gowrie Care, Joy Dunlop, managing director at Gowrie Care and Joe FitzPatrick MSP Public health minister Joe FitzPatrick MSP launched the national strategy for preventing and reducing drug and alcohol-related harm at an event held in Gowrie Care’s Cairn Centre

(from left) back: Joy Watson, Hillcrest tenancy services manager; John Cairney, Fairfield project officer; Alison Mackenzie, community sport hub officer; front: Diaré Drammeh and Fatima Ramzan, both project workers with Dundee International Women’s Centre Three Scottish charities working hard to