The SFHA Annual Conference took place earlier this week in Glasgow bringing together social housing leaders, activists, policymakers and politicians from across Scotland and beyond to discuss the major issues facing the sector.
The SPA team assisted at GlasGrow an urban community garden managed by Hawthorn Housing Co-Operative.
In April we re-opened our newly refurbished office, we haven’t moved, we’re still in the same location but we now occupy the entire first floor.
As we are all aware, a little over 2 years ago, the world as we knew it changed significantly due to Covid and put a halt to pretty much everything: in both our professional and personal lives. What we thought would maybe be a few weeks turned into months, and then years.
As life slowly begins to return to some semblance of normality for many, this is not the case for those that lost family members, friends and jobs. Again, our housing communities are disproportionately impacted by the lasting effects of Covid-19.
Graham Collie, technical support manager at SPA, explores some of the innovative ways its public sector partners are working to meet net zero in their housing stock, and how taking a flexible approach to procurement can help.
The Government’s recently published Transforming Public Procurement (TPP) Green Paper consultation response shows determination to put alternative assessment scoring front-and-centre over price, to drive both equity and economic improvement.
Client Support Manager, Alistair Rankine discusses why SPA Partners trust SPA for their procurement solutions.
Lintel Trust's Senior Business Development Officer - Kate Christie - discusses the benefits of recording social value for suppliers.
A guest blog from SPA Appointed Company, Mast Architects, on EESSH2 targets and how their company can assist through SPA’s Consultancy Framework.
