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The Cairn Housing Group Staff Awards recognise the great achievements of our team, and in particular, those who live and breathe our values in pursuit of great services to our tenants and other customers.  Nominations for our annual awards are made by colleagues across Cairn Housing Group and we convened a staff panel to review…

Cairn Housing Association is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Handyperson Scheme which is estimated to have saved the NHS over £6m. Cairn established the Handyperson service in 2009 on behalf of Highland Council to help private home owners across the region by carrying out small repairs and adaptations. It started out with just one…

Cairn’s 2019 Annual General Meeting saw Chairperson Simon Guest stand down after three years at the helm and Vice Chair Michael Allan appointed Chairperson of the association. Simon Guest said: “It has been a great privilege to serve as Cairn’s Chair for the last three years and I am grateful to our Board members and…

Pentland and Cairn – Stronger together, better for tenants Pentland Housing Association has concluded a strategic review, which involved tenants, staff and Board members, to plan for the future of the Association and how they provide their homes and services to tenants and other customers. Following an open tender exercise where they invited potential partner…

A SINGING group that exists to bring together communities in Stirling with a focus on overall wellbeing has landed funding from our Community Fund towards a much-needed electric piano.Stirling Wellbeing Choir, which runs from Allan Park South Church, has received £500, helping it to secure the new instrument, guaranteeing live backing music for years to…

The summer issue of Cairn Focus is being sent to tenants this week. You can read all about our Housing Officer’s trip to the UN, what Community Fund projects we’ve recently given funding to, and what tenants in Aitkin Court have been up to. You can take a read here.

An attractive £8.1 million development of 71 much needed affordable homes in Arbroath has been opened by local MSP Graeme Dey. Cairn Housing Association has worked in partnership with Angus Housing Association to help create 36 of the new homes at Railton Crescent. The affordable development, comprised of one, two and three bedroom homes, was…

Cairn currently have repair target response times of 2 hours for emergency repairs, 2 days for urgent repairs and 10 days for routine repairs. Following on from a review of our targets compared to other landlords, we realised that our targets were a lot more challenging than other housing associations. Due to this, and given our large geographical spread of properties, we…

We hope you have a lovely long weekend. A reminder that our offices will be closed tomorrow (19th April) and Monday (22nd April) but you’ll still be able to report emergency repairs by calling 0800 990 3405.

A new housing development at Railton Crescent in Arbroath has been completed, delivering on Cairn’s ambitious five year development programme which is projected to see 400 new homes built across Scotland. 36 affordable new homes, comprised of one, two and three bedrooms, were built in Arbroath by Persimmon Homes. This £4 million development project began…