Press & News Area

Current Press Releases

22.01.10
Margaret Blackwood HA achieves IIP Bronze

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has achieved Investors in People accreditation for the fourth consecutive time and accomplished the IIP Bronze standard at this assessment. The Association attained almost twice the number of evidence points as needed to win basic IIP recognition.
Read More

05.11.09
European quality award for Margaret Blackwood

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has become one of the first housing associations in Scotland to achieve the European Foundation for Quality Management’s Committed to Excellence.
Read More

03.11.09
Spellbinding fundraising at Margaret Blackwood

Staff at Margaret Blackwood's Edinburgh head office invoked the spell-binding skills of the Candyfloss Witch ...
Read More

10.08.09
MBHA Race for Life team raise £2000

It was one of those soft, cool Edinburgh mornings in June with the mist low over Holyrood Park. The sunbathers might have been frustrated but there was a sigh of relief from anyone committed to a long distance run. Or jog. Or walk. Or self-propelled wheelchair dash.
Read More

05.08.09
Tenancy transfer on Mull of Kintyre

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association's 15-year presence in the Kintyre peninsula came to and end on Monday, 3rd August with the formal handover of its properties in Tarbert and Campbeltown to Fyne Homes.
Read More

29.07.09
Tenants move into new Edinburgh homes

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has welcomed all the tenants who have moved into their new homes at Barleyhill Terrace in Restalrig, Edinburgh. 
Read More

08.04.09
Training to save lives

An empty sheltered housing complex in Glamis Road, Dundee is providing Tayside Fire and Rescue with the chance to train for an emergency the firefighters hope will never happen again – a major fire in a care home.
Read More

07.04.09
School pupils present Easter Baskets to Margaret Blackwood tenants

With Spring definitely in the air, pupils from Clyde Valley High School in Wishaw have presented two beautiful Easter Baskets to the tenants of Margaret Blackwood Housing Association’s development at Cala Sona Court in Netherton.
Read More

31.03.09
Prestwick tenants transfer

Minerva Housing Association has completed the transfer of its 18-property complex at Ardfin Court in Prestwick to Margaret Blackwood Housing Association.
Read More

02.12.08
Clyde Valley High School pupils raise funds for Margaret Blackwood tenants

To mark the recent European Day of Languages, the Year Three Modern Languages pupils at Clyde Valley High School in Wishaw held a coffee morning to raise funds for the elderly and disabled tenants of Cala Sona Court, in nearby Netherton.
Read More

17.11.08
Raeden Court celebrates 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years ago last week, Margaret Blackwood Housing Association officially opened Raeden Court, their housing development on Mid Stocket Road in Aberdeen. A week of celebrations kicked off with a 1980s Quiz Night, with tenants, their families and friends joining members of staff in a fun-packed evening trawling memories and laughing at silly recollections.
Read more

16.09.08
Historic community moves into 21st Century housing

Tenants of Margaret Blackwood Housing Association’s historic community at Cala Sona Court in Netherton, Wishaw, have moved into innovative new housing designed to meet their needs in the 21^st Century.
Read More

29.08.08
Scottish Borders Council and MBHA launch new Short Breaks service in Peebles

An exciting new development at Tweedbridge Court in Peebles is due to open in September. Margaret Blackwood Housing Association, in partnership with Scottish Borders Council Social Work Services, is making a two-bedroom flat available which has been specially designed and equipped for a person living with disabilities.
Read More

29.08.08
Gwen Robinson joins Margaret Blackwood Housing Association

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has appointed Gwen Robinson as Services Development Manager for its care and support activities.
Read More

20.08.08
Tweedbridge Court celebrates 30 years

Tweedbridge Court, Margaret Blackwood Housing Association’s development which provides specially designed housing for disabled people in Peebles, has celebrated its 30^th Anniversary.
Read More

13.12.07
Margaret Blackwood restructures their repairs service

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has reacted to feedback from tenants by radically changing their reactive repairs service.
Read More

06.12.07
Maintenance Moves at Margaret Blackwood HA

Billy Black becomes Maintenance Manager and Sharon Brady-Wardrope becomes Planned Maintenance Manager.
Read More

04.12.07
New Training Opportunity with MBHA's SWOT Team

Margaret Blackwood Technical Consultants’ Small Works Team (SWOT) has been expanded to include two new trades with the recruitment of an electrician and a plumber. It now has a staff of nine. In addition to employing three apprentices last year, our subsidiary is delighted to participate in the Training Opportunities In Lothians (TOIL) initiative by placing a student directly into our team.
Read More

19.11.07
MBHA raises pounds for Pudsey

It wasn’t so much a dress-down Friday as a pyjama party at Margaret Blackwood Housing Association’s head office in Edinburgh last week as staff supported the Children in Need Appeal.
Read More

02.11.07
Margaret Blackwood Housing Association tackles fuel poverty

Sustainability and reducing fuel poverty are priorities for Margaret Blackwood Housing Association. Recent research undertaken for the Association by Changeworks identified that their tenants, three quarters of whom are physically disabled, are significantly more likely to be in fuel poverty than the average Scot. Fuel poverty is defined as being when a person spends more than 10 per cent of their income on fuel. The average person spends around three per cent.
Read More

27.07.07
Alex Salmond opens new accessible Margaret Blackwood housing in Ellon

Scotland’s First Minister, Rt. Hon. Alex Salmond MSP, today officially opened Park Court, in Ellon, a mixed community housing development by Margaret Blackwood Housing Association.
Read More

19.06.07
Margaret Blackwood Housing Association designs 21st Century housing for historic community

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has released computer-generated pictures of its housing development at Cala Sona Court in Netherton, Wishaw, which show how it will look once the first phase of its redevelopment is completed in January 2008.
Read More

25.04.07
Tenants to benefit from new preferential Savings & Loans scheme

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association and Dunfermline Building Society have announced a preferential Savings & Loans scheme for the Association's tenants.
Read More

20.03.07
Margaret Blackwood sees RED

Last Friday was a pretty run-of-the-mill day for the staff of Margaret Blackwood Housing Association's Edinburgh head office. Business as usual you might say.
Read More

07.01.07
Jock Welsh heads Margaret Blackwood Housing Association’s support services

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has appointed Jock Welsh as Support Services Director. Jock will lead the Association’s extensive care and support activities at a particularly exciting time.
Read More

05.10.06
Beating hospital bed blocking – Aspire open adapted house in Clydebank

The national spinal cord injury charity ASPIRE, in association with Margaret Blackwood Housing Association, has opened its first fully adapted house in Scotland ....

Read More

22.08.06
Margaret Blackwood's AGM looks at their Big Challenge

The 33rd Annual General Meeting of Margaret Blackwood Housing Association was held on Monday 21st August at Edinburgh's Our Dynamic Earth.
Read more

21.07.06
New Apprentice Scheme at Margaret Blackwood Housing Association

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has been overwhelmed with application requests for its new apprenticeship scheme launching ....
Read more

30.06.06
New Housing for Disabled People in Ellon

A new, 11-flat development being built at Park Road in Ellon, Aberdeenshire by Margaret Blackwood Housing Association will include two flats designed specifically around the needs of wheelchair users and one flat designed for older people who have restricted mobility.
Read more

28.06.06
Challenging new roles for MBHA managers

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has expanded the roles of two of its managers.
Read more

02.06.06
MBHA Appoint Chap Construction

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has appointed Westhill-based Chap Construction (Aberdeen) Ltd to build 11 flats at park Road, Ellon.
Read more

27.03.06
New directors at Margaret Blackwood Housing Association

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association has appointed Chris Thomson and Danny Harvie as directors.
Read More

22.03.06
Margaret Blackwood forges partnership with ASPIRE

The heads of two charitable organisations met today (Wednesday, 22nd March 2006) to mark the start of a project to help people from across Scotland build new lives after spinal cord injury.
Read More