AN INVERNESS music charity has benefited from a funding boost allowing them to continue to support children in their early development through musical interactions. Since their inception in 2019, the Merkinch Skill Share sessions from Rokzkool Academy have been offering the young people of Merkinch a safe, warm environment to build friendships, learn new skills…
News from Cairn
Contact Centre Training: Thursday 6 February
Staff in our contact centre are in training this Thursday. Our phones will be diverted to our out of hours service so you can still report emergency repairs. We will be back on Friday to take your calls. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Spreading Joy Through Live Music
Music in Hospitals & Care has received £900 in funding from Cairn Housing Association to continue its work visiting hospitals, hospices, care homes, day centres, special schools and community settings to spread ‘Joy Through Live Music’. The funding received will be used to provide a number of concerts this summer held in three of Cairn’s housing developments; Calum MacDonald…
ANCHO welcomes new Board members
Mary Black will lead a new-look board at ANCHO after the North Ayrshire-based housing association made a raft of new appointments. Steven Travers, Leanne Stirling, Kelly Arrol, Nigel Fortnum, Colin Love and Michael Donnelly are joining the ANCHO board and bring with them decades of collective experience in strategy development, property management, accountancy, digitisation, human resources, social enterprises and charity fundraising. Mary Black will chair the…
Christmas Opening Hours
We will be closing our office at 1pm on Tuesday 24th December and reopening at 9am on Monday 6th January. If you require an emergency repair over the holidays you can call 0800 990 3405, 24 hours a day. Wishing all our tenants a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year! ?
Fraud advice from Allpay
Allpay has advised that one of their clients has received a fraudulent letter, claiming to be from Allpay, about a change of bank details. We’re not aware of any Cairn tenants being contacted in this way, but if you receive a similar letter please ignore. Any enquiries can be directed to Allpay on 0844 557…
Cairn wins disabled tenant £25,000 in unpaid benefits
Cairn Housing Association has transformed the life of a chronically disabled tenant by winning him back an unexpected £25,000 windfall of unpaid benefits. The tenant, who lives with a serious back condition, had struggled financially for several years in spite of his numerous benefit applications to the Department for Workplace and Pensions (DWP). But when he…
We’re looking for an ANCHO Board Member
ANCHO is a housing association with 850 properties for social rent and provides factoring services to 200 owner occupiers with the majority in North Ayrshire. ANCHO has an annual turnover of £3.8m and is a registered social landlord with the Scottish Housing Regulator. ANCHO is part of the Cairn Housing Group, following the establishment of…
Now recruiting for a Customer Service Advisor Trainee
Customer Service Advisor Trainee We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to fill an exciting Trainee position within our contact centre team. Our Cairn Connect contact centre team handles all enquiries and service requests coming in to Cairn and aims to provide a high quality services to tenants and other stakeholders. Our Trainee…
Making annual reporting fun…since 2019
We have issued our annual performance report in an online format consisting of colourful illustrations and an audio option available to increase accessibility as well as convenience. The new unconventional design contains all of the standard information included in an annual report but in a way that is appealing and engaging for tenants. Jason MacGilp,…
