Cairn Housing Association

More than 300 affordable homes come to Granton 🏘 We have worked in partnership with Harbour Homes Scotland to create 306 new affordable homes at Granton Harbour, Edinburgh.   The new tenants and their families had a fantastic time celebrating their moves with a street party a few weeks ago! 🎉   Audrey Simpson, Cairn’s Chief Executive, said: “We are delighted to have partnered with Harbour Homes and other key stakeholders to bring much-needed affordable housing to Granton. These new homes are a testament to what can be achieved when organisations work together with a shared vision. Thanks to Harbour Homes and to everyone involved for their dedication and hard work. We are confident that our new tenants will thrive in this vibrant community.”   If you are interested in finding out more about this new settlement, you can find the full post on our website: https://lnkd.in/eQWEvvGX

🚨 Job Opening Alert 🚨 We require a Cleaning and Health & Safety Assistant to ensure a high standard of cleanliness within the Court, maintaining confidentiality of the Court and its tenants, and to ensure that Health and Safety guidelines and fire regulations are strictly adhered to. 🙋👷 The successful applicant will have experience in a similar role of cleaning, knowledge or overview of H&S requirements and experience with working with people, be IT & computer literate and have good communication and interpersonal skills. 👉 Find out more about the role here: https://lnkd.in/eprRTkhG #JobOpportunity #housingjobs

Cairn Property Team at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations Rural & Island Conference in Dundee 🏡   Our Director of Property Services Meg Deasley, Property Investment Officers Mathilde Macdonald and Heather Drummond attended the SFHA RIHAF conference this week.   Mathilde, as the lead officer on the EnerPHit project, was invited to speak at the Fabric First EnerPHit workshop alongside Barbara Lantschner, Associate Director at John Gilbert Architects. Together with GMR HENDERSON BUILDERS LTD the team successfully completed the EnerPHit project, which involved retrofitting two Cairn properties in Wick to Passivhaus standard.   This is a first for a Scottish Registered Social Landlord and will pave the way for more efficient future retrofitting to Cairn properties.   Well done to Mathilde and the wider team for their hard work on this amazing project! 👏 #sfharihaf24 #ScottishRuralandIslandsHousingConference #HousingScotland

Heather and Mathilde from our Investment team are at the Scotland HIL Housing Conference in Glasgow today. Sessions and discussions are being held on Scotland's net zero and retrofit journey, that delivers for the social housing sector and beyond. #HousingScotland #HousingLeaders

Our Cairn Connect Team celebrated their 10-year anniversary in the Edinburgh office yesterday!🎈🎉 After putting on a fantastic spread of sandwiches and cakes from a local bakery, our Customer Experience Manager Collette Campbell thanked the team for their fantastic work and dedication to supporting our customers over the past decade. Over this period, our Cairn Connect Team has handled an impressive 315,000 calls and dealt with 102,500 emails and 8,200 webchats, demonstrating their ongoing commitment to delivering exceptional service. Well done, team! 👏

🚨 Job Opening Alert 🚨 We are looking for an experienced individual to fill an exciting role within our HROD Team. 💁♂️📝 We require require a HR Assistant to provide effective coordination on a wide range of generalist HR activities, to support the HR function in delivering the service within agreed SLA’s, delivering excellent customer service as the first point of contact in HR and offer first line advice to employees and external customers on relevant policies and procedures to ensure a consistent and compliant service. 👉 Find out more about the role here: https://lnkd.in/gQ8SbcyV #JobOpportunity #invernessjobs #EdinburghJobs #housingjobs #HybridWorking #HRAssistant #HRJobs

We’re delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for two Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland Housing Awards 2024! 🎖✨ Our Customer Service & Welfare Benefits team are up for Housing Team of the Year for securing additional funding, which has provided invaluable support to our tenants. Our EnerPHit Project in Wick has been shortlisted in the Net Zero in Housing category. This project saw two properties in Wick upgraded to EnerPHit standard, which is a first for a Scottish social landlord. We’re excited for the awards ceremony on 8. November and a big thank you to our fantastic staff for your hard work!

We had a fantastic time meeting with some of our tenants during our tenant event and Cairn AGM in Thurso last week. This was one of our most well-attended AGMs in years, with one dedicated shareholder making the long journey from Coatbridge!

Our Annual Report for 2024 is live now! 📊 We have published our annual performance report. It contains trends, analysis and how we compare with the Scottish average. You can see our full range of performance information on our website: https://lnkd.in/eSTa9vb9

For this year’s Scottish Housing Day theme, Homes for Live, we met with 101-year-old, Sandy Aitkenhead, who has been a Cairn tenant for over four decades. Sandy celebrated his 101st birthday this February at Stuart Court in Edinburgh and is a foundational part of the community! 🙋♀️🏡💁♂️ 👉 You can read Sandy's amazing story on our website: https://lnkd.in/ekGQdbBz #ScottishHousingDay #homesforlife