Welcome everyone to the 2025 Scotland Housing Award's Good Practice Compendium - a catalogue of the great work undertaken by housing professionals across Scotland.
Over the last year our sector has continued to contend with consequences of the housing emergency; low levels of new-build activity has meant a modest growth in overall stock, and concerns over affordability, resilience and the funding of new standards has created uncertainty among practitioners as how we deliver for our existing tenants and those without a home. The work of Scotland's housing professionals has been crucial in giving hope and giving a home to tenants and communities.
With this compendium we celebrate the work of our peers and learn new ways of working with colleagues. When faced with a problem you're continually challenging yourselves and this compendium is a record of the sector's achievement. There is no better demonstration of the industriousness and innovation of Scotland’s housing professionals.
The awards and the compendium reflect the impact and achievement across the housing sector in Scotland. Well done to all our winners and thank you to everyone who submitted entries to help us continue to share the good practice in Scotland.
We want to express a big thank you to all our judges for this year's awards who have given their time voluntarily to support the Scotland Housing Awards. Everyone who has taken the time to submit or judge an application is helping improve learning and practice across our sector.
Callum Chomczuk
National director at CIH Scotland
The awards
We are pleased to share the winners of the Scotland Housing Awards 2025. Below is a list of the winners for each award category and a link through to read their entry and other shortlisted applications into the categories.
With hundreds of entries into this year's awards there is lots of fantastic good practice to be explored in this good practice compendium.
- Winning project name: Tenant Communication Profile
- Winning organisation: Paragon Housing Association
Sponsored by Muirhouse Housing Association
- Winning project name: Kill, Prevent, Protect
- Winning organisation: ng Homes
- Partner organisation: Insite Specialist Services
Sponsored by Govan Housing Group
- Winning project name: Hospital to Home – Housing Support for Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Patients
- Winning organisation: Housing Options Scotland
- Partner organisation: The Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit
Sponsored by The Scottish National Investment Bank
- Winning project name: Oakwood Edge, Mayfield
- Winning organisation: Lovell Partnerships Limited
- Partner organisation: Melville Housing Association
Sponsored by West of Scotland Housing Association
- Winning project name: Scrutiny Panel Environmental Thematic Review
- Winning organisation: Wheatley Group
Sponsored by Scottish government
- Winning project name: Leading with values and responding to challenge in the PRS
- Winning organisation: Homes for Good (Scotland) CIC
Sponsored by SafeDeposits Scotland
- Winning project name: Calton Village
- Winning organisation: Wheatley Group
- Partner organisation: McTaggart Construction
Sponsored by Kingdom Group
- Winning project name: BHA - Realising the power of home
- Winning organisation: Berwickshire Housing Association
Sponsored by Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
- Winning project name: Empowered People - Exceptional Results
- Winning organisation: Hanover Scotland
Sponsored by Fife Council
- Winning project name: Building a Fairer Falkirk: Tackling Poverty to Improve Health and Wellbeing
- Winning organisation: Falkirk Council
- Winning project name: Housing First for Families - deliver life-changing outcomes for some of Scotland’s most vulnerable families
- Winning organisation: Riverside Scotland
- Winning project name: Japp Gardens
- Winning organisation: Falkirk Council
- Partner organisation: Falkirk Council Health &
Social Care Partnership
Sponsored by Horizon Housing
- Winning project name: Kelvin Court Energy Efficiency Retrofit
- Winning organisation: Hanover Scotland
Sponsored by C~urb
- Winning project name: Children’s Champion Project
- Winning organisation: North Lanarkshire Council
- Partner organisations: Social Work, Health, Income Maximisation & Benefit teams, Simon Community Scotland, Employability Support/Skills Development Scotland (Roots)
- Winner: Connor Murphy
- Organisation: South Lanarkshire Council
Sponsored by Jewson Partnership Solutions
- Winner: Tenant Participation Team
- Organisation: North Lanarkshire Council
Sponsored by Brodies
- Winner: Mia Hastings
- Organisation: Kingdom Housing Association
Sponsored by Elderpark Housing
