Ownership Options

Links

• Caring Christmas Trees Is a charity where ALL profits made from the tree sales go to support great local charities working with local people.
• Citizens Advice Scotland Your local CAB can help you in lots of different ways. Citizens advice bureaux give free, confidential, impartial and independent advice on a limitless range of subjects
• Community Partnerships Project The Scottish Parliament’s Community Partnerships Project
• Construction Licensing Executive many of our clients ask us to recommend someone to carry out building works or home improvements. It is not possible for us to make recommendations however we can suggest people contact the Construction Licensing Executive on 0141 354 1304 or visit their
• Equalities and Human Rights Commision: Housing and Property This link has information on your rights as defined in law when it comes to housing in Scotland.
• Fiona Campbell Benefits Consultant Fiona Campbell provides specialist benefits advice to Ownership Options. See her website for more details.
• Home Swapper HomeSwapper.co.uk is the UK’s largest service helping people like you swap homes. In the past year HomeSwapper has helped over 25,000 tenants move home! If you live in a rented council or housing association house you can swap your home.
• Houses for Heroes Houses for Heroes a Scottish-based Charity providing and maintaining rented housing for permanently disabled ex-Armed Forces, Merchant Navy, Police and Fire Service Personnel .
• Legal services Agency – Prevention of Homelessness event A Link to the LSA event on preventing homelessness to be held on the 30th January
• Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis’s site gives you free information on how you can save money on anything from financial products to utilities.
• Poppy Scotland Poppyscotland is the leading charity supporting ex-Servicemen and women and their families in Scotland.
• Ricability Ricability is an independent consumer research charity providing free, practical and unbiased reports for older and disabled people.
• SAHN The Scottish Accessible Housing Network, the network of user-led housing and disability organisations.
• Scottish Government Website This is the Scottish Government’s website
• Scottish Housing and Support Conference Programme information on Scottish Housing and Support Conference
• South Ayrshire Youth Forum Young people from around South Ayrshire who believe that every young person should have a voice in the issues which affect them.
• Talking Mental Health Talking Mental Health helps you communicate difficult mental health and legal information with service users and carers.
• The Blackwood Foundation The Blackwood Foundation has just launched a new web site. This provides information about their work, their aspirations, and also their progress so far.
• The Joint Improvement Team (JIT) established in late 2004 to work directly with local health and social care partnerships across Scotland.
• The Money Advice Service Whatever the situation with your finances, it’s good to know where you stand and that you are making the most of what you have. The health check, a new online money planner from the Money Advice Service, is for everyone.
• The Officers Association Scotland The Officers Association Scotland (OA Scotland) exists to relieve distress among all those who have at any time held a Sovereign’s Commission with embodied service in HM Naval, Military, or Air Forces, and among their wives, widows, husbands, widowers, ch
• The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland The RIAS is the professional body for all chartered architects in Scotland and is the foremost architectural professional institute in the country dealing with architecture and the built environment.