Ore Valley Housing Association

CIH Scotland has confirmed the appointment of Gavin Smith to the Scotland board. Currently a service manager at Fife Council with responsibility for homelessness, housing access and service commissioning arrangements, Gavin has worked in various roles in a number of different housing policy areas fo

A second round of the Plugged-In Households Grant Fund has now opened, allowing more social housing providers, third sector and community organisations the chance to procure the services of electric vehicle car clubs. £500,000 is available for social housing providers and third sector organisa

Eight housing associations are to share a £510,000 investment from the Scottish Government towards electric hire car clubs to allow people to rent low-emission vehicles. The Plugged-in Households Grant Fund will support the associations to procure the services of car clubs.

Andrew Saunders, CEO at Ore Valley Housing Association, with the award A community wind turbine project established by Ore Valley Housing Association has won a major prize in the Scottish Renewables Green Energy Awards 2018.

Some of Fife’s finest were treated to a fun-filled afternoon last week as the Fife Housing Association Alliance hosted a free afternoon tea for their older tenants. In an effort to help tackle the loneliness and isolation often experienced by our senior citizens, tenants of Fife Housing Group, Kin

(from left) Business development manager Nick Clark, Board chair Susan McDonald and CEO Andrew Saunders with the new Renault Zoe electric car and charging points at the Ore Valley Business Centre Ore Valley Group has contributed to the current global push towards more sustainable greener transport w

Fife Housing Register partners A new website to help people searching for social housing in Fife has been launched this month by Fife Housing Register partners.

Bill Banks, chief executive, Kingdom Housing Association and Cllr Judy Hamilton, convener of community and housing services committee A formal agreement between Fife Council and the Fife Housing Association Alliance has been renewed for the next five years, allowing the partnership to continue to de

Ore Valley Housing Association welcomed minister for business, innovation and energy, Paul Wheelhouse, to formally open its recently completed wind turbine built to the south of Cardenden in Fife. Launched by the Ore Valley Group, which is led by the Association, the Dundonald Wind Turbine started t

Isabelle Salter Ore Valley Housing Association has waved goodbye to its communications officer Isabelle Salter, who leaves the housing association after two and a half years.

Staff from the Fife Housing Association Alliance have taken part in a joint event aimed at helping tenants and customers who are struggling to meet their household bills on small incomes. Employees from housing associations Fife, Glen, Kingdom and Ore Valley attending the joint continued professiona

Kevin Scarlett Eighteen housing associations in Scotland - including the Haymarket Group of associations - have agreed to take part in a sector scorecard pilot to benchmark a range of business health and efficiency measures.

A wind turbine project supported by Ore Valley Housing Association has started to produce green energy for the first time. The Dundonald Wind Turbine in Cardenden was launched by the Ore Valley Group, which is led by the Association.

Ore Valley Housing Association (OVHA) has closed a deal with the European Energy Efficiency Fund (eeef) on a £4.6 million project to develop wind turbines and replace 200 heating systems for OVHA homes. This is eeef’s first community based transaction within the UK and the result of a four-year l

A group of housing associations are considering sharing greater information regarding their performance and value for money within their Annual Return on the Charter (ARC) reports to tenants each year. Formed in 2015, the ‘Haymarket Group’ of housing associations has been meeting to discuss how