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About the Association Dr Margaret Blackwood Lobbying and Campaigning Management Team The Board Board Minutes
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About the Association
| We provide housing, care and support - sometimes together, sometimes as individual services. We have a mix of mainstream and fully accessible housing. We were founded in 1972 by Dr Margaret Blackwood to tackle the almost complete lack of housing in Scotland suitable for disabled people and their families. We were formally registered as a housing association in December 1975 and opened our first houses in Dundee in 1976. Most of our houses and flats are in small, independent estates of mixed house types, or are individual properties scattered throughout the wider community. We also have 13 developments which offer varying degrees of staff support. Although we specialise in accessibility, we don't only work with disabled people. We have around 1600 properties in total, including a number operated in partnership with other organisations. These break down as follows: - | | 
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- about 100 are for disabled people with intensive support needs;
- over 600 are designed for tenants who are wheelchair users;
- almost 200 are built to barrier-free standards, are "wheelchair user visitable" and particularly suited to people with mobility problems;
- over 50 are operated by partner organisations;
- almost 500 homes, featuring barrier-free detailing, are ideal for non-disabled people with a general housing need.
We all like to design our homes to suit the way we live. Disabled people are no different. Appropriate design and adaptations are often the key to independent living. Working with occupational therapists and, especially, our disabled tenants, our experienced Adaptations staff can modify houses and fit special equipment that can radically change lives for the better. As well as providing houses at affordable rents or for shared ownership, providing care and support services to disabled people is a key activity for us and presently employs 350 of our 400 staff. These services are offered within our sheltered and supported schemes, for disabled tenants in our independent houses, and for clients within the wider community. Our Care and Support Services range from a low-level support of a few hours a week to 24-hour full-time packages. We are also developing respite services in different parts of the country.
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© Copyright Margaret Blackwood Housing Association Limited, 2008
Registered Office:
Margaret Blackwood Housing Association Limited, Craigievar House, 77 Craigmount Brae, Edinburgh EH12 8XF
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