Friday news round-up: 3 March 2017
Catch up with this week's SFHA members' news.
Queens Cross take leap in workplace equality
Queens Cross rises up Stonewall Workplace Equality Index
Cairn named one of the best not-for-profit UK employers
Housing association celebrates making Sunday Times top 100 employers list.
Cairn’s award comes after several years of continuous and sustained performance improvements and organisational development across the association. This year, Cairn has identified staff engagement as its ‘wildly important goal’, which will ensure that providing a working environment that enables and motivates colleagues to do a great job continues to be an organisational priority.
Edinburgh tenants test ground-breaking new wheelchair design
Blackwood tenants to test revolutionary wheelchair
Blackwood’s Abbey Court development, which provides housing and support for people with physical disabilities, will host a focus group with inventor Alex Papanikolaou, in which tenants will have the opportunity to test his unique Freedom One Life® power wheelchair.
Bield tenant celebrates 100th birthday
Milestone birthday for tenant
Emily Lyall, who was born in Soho and grew up in Kent, made India, Egypt and Singapore her home before returning to the UK.
Easthall Park turns 25!
Easthall Park Housing Co-operative, which operates in the Easthall and Kildermorie areas in Easterhouse and owns or manages over 700 homes, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
To help it mark Easthall Park this landmark, staff visited all original tenants to say thank you for being a tenant since the association’s beginnings and to hand deliver a bunch of flowers. And the celebrations didn’t stop there. Easthall Park held a kids’ party, with 40 local children attending. Later on in the evening, a signer and live band kicked off the nighttime celebrations.