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Common sense suggests that building houses in factories and screwing them together on site is the most efficient way of creating homes. But generally, that’s not the way we do it. So we brought two pioneers of modular construction together to explain it all on the Scottish Housing News Po

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Hillcrest Homes has been awarded £85,000 from the Communities Recovery Fund, with the cash helping support a wide range of people, charities and community groups in the city of Dundee. Hillcrest Homes is managing the distribution of the funding through their extensive network of partner organi

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A range of solid silver jewellery has been donated to a Broughty Ferry charity shop by jeweller Richard Henderson in a bid to raise money to support local communities. The items, which include over 70 necklaces, bracelets and rings, were gifted to Past Present Futures, located in Gray Street.

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Hillcrest Futures has won a donation of £10,000 from internet provider Hyperoptic as part of the company’s tenth anniversary celebrations marking a decade of gigabit broadband delivery. Hyperoptic received hundreds of applications in the prize draw and Hillcrest Futures was drawn as the

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Hillcrest Futures has delivered training to staff and stewards at Brechin City Football Club in the use of Naloxone, a medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of an accidental opioid overdose. The life saving training was given at the club’s Glebe Park stadium and aims to reduce the

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People with lived experience have met for the first time to support and shape innovative proposals for the new Community Wellbeing Centre in Dundee. Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action (DVVA) hosted the first meeting of the stakeholder group, made up of third sector partners and those with lived e

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Hillcrest was named Community Business of the Year at Saturday night’s prestigious The Courier Business Awards 2021 held at the Apex City Quay Hotel in Dundee. The Dundee-based charity achieved the award for its commitment to supporting the community through local employment, partnership worki

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Hillcrest Futures held a celebratory afternoon tea at The Woodlands Hotel in Broughty Ferry last week to recognise the volunteers who help at its boutique charity shop, Past Present Futures. Attendees enjoyed a catch up over a selection of sandwiches, scones and cakes before being presented with var

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A commercial premises gifted by Hillcrest Homes to the Stobswell community of Dundee until the end of the year will serve as the base for a number of initiatives including housing a Dundee Design Festival project, a Stobswell community consultation hub and a community Christmas hub. With Dundee Desi

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Perth and Kinross Housing and communities convenor Councillor Bob Brawn and Hillcrest chair Alan Russell made a Scottish Housing Day visit to a small development of four Hillcrest homes being delivered in Alyth, which are set to drive carbon emissions to new lows for affordable housing. Work started

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Hillcrest’s return to normality took another step forward as the 2021 AGM took place in person for the first time since 2019, with a number of new board members appointed. At the event, which took place last week at Hillcrest’s Dundee HQ, a number of key topics were discussed such as rec

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