Kingdom’s Mia Hastings has won the Young Achiever in Housing for 2025 at the Scotland Housing Awards.
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual awards ceremony honours the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individual employees, with accolades covering equality, sustainability, leadership and customer service.
The Young Achiever in Housing Award recognises the very best young people within the Scottish sector, celebrating their successes, contributions and achievements.
At just 22, Communications and Media Advisor Mia is already making waves in housing. Working with customers, colleagues and stakeholders, her flair for creating eye-catching design with real purpose has made a huge impact to Kingdom’s communications.
Mia has led projects including designing calling cards for customers, and creating visual designs to signpost young people to Kingdom’s training schemes. She’s also constructed the platform and pages for the company intranet, as well as making significant savings by bringing video production in-house.
She’s proved herself as a patient and inspiring mentor for new colleagues, being generous with her time and expertise. Colleagues from across the business trust her with projects and tasks without any hesitation, with the Kingdom Group CEO Tom Barclay calling her “mature, capable and completely can-do".
After joining Kingdom as a trainee at 18, Mia recently achieved an honours degree, and is now studying for her master’s, all while working full-time.
Mia represents the future of the housing sector. The very definition of safe hands, she has real enthusiasm, creativity and the genuine desire to make things better.
Her manager, Darren Stenhouse, said: “I’m so proud of Mia winning the CIH Scotland Young Achiever in Housing Award. She’s already delivering work that raises standards across Kingdom. She’s kind, innovative and has an instinct for understanding what people need. Diligent, talented and genuinely great to work with, it’s been a privilege watching her grow into this role, and it’s a well-deserved recognition.”
On receiving the award, Mia said: “I really love what I do and seeing the difference I can make means so much. Winning this has only motivated me to do more to make an even bigger impact in the amazing housing sector.”
